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A manager has to convince his hitters that they have to get on base for the next guy and that no player can do it by himself. Sometimes that isn't easy. In the playoffs, you can get into trouble because everybody wants to be a hero.
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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
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Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's leaned on, not the person doing the leaning, you're not an adult.