Earl Weaver Quotes

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

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.

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.'

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

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.

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

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.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.

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.'

Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.

We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.

Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

If you know how to cheat, start now.

No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.

The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.