Earl Weaver Quotes
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If you know how to cheat, start now.
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I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.
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Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal, getting thrown out, taking runs away from you. You get some big bleep bleepers that can hit the bleeping ball out of ballpark and you can't make any bleep bleeping mistakes.
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Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
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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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We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.
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My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'
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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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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job. I don't welcome any challenge. I'd rather have nine guys named Robinson.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
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I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.
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I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.
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A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
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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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Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.
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Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry.
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The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back' and 'The Year of the Elbow.' This year it's 'The Year of the Ulnar Nerve.' Someone once asked me if I had any physical incapacities of my own. 'Sure I do,' I said. 'One big one - Jim Palmer.'
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There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.
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Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.
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