American - Coach | October 4, 1944 -
We're all men, not machines. We make mistakes.
Tony La Russa
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I'm not going to manage again. I'm going to work for a team someday. But it won't be managing.
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If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.
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It's easy to figure out whether you're getting stale. All you've got to do is look in the mirror and be honest with yourself.
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My wife and I, we started a foundation about companion animal rescue, but there's a group called Performing Animal Welfare Society just outside of Sacramento... and they offered me a job as an elephant keeper.
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I'm not a big 'Moneyball' fan.
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You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.
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I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and they allowed me to drop out to play baseball, and then I'd get readmitted in September. I was convinced I was going to be a lawyer and was using my baseball salary to pay my way through school.
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There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.
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If you're a coach, and you don't have trust with players, you've got no chance, and your credibility is zero. And that's why it's so important to tell them the truth. If you have something that you're upset about, tell them the truth. If they're doing something wrong, tell them the truth.
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I was a lousy player with virtually no experience managing.
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Winning in Oakland in '89 was distinguished because that was truly a great team on a mission to prove that '88 was not what we represented. I look at that team in awe. It was a push-button team.
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