American - Coach | August 14, 1930 -
You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
Earl Weaver
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The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself.
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The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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