John McGraw famous quotes
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Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.
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If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.
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With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.
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The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.
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The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.
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No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.
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In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.
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I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.
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He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.
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One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.
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Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.
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You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?
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There is but one game and that game is baseball.
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Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.
-- John McGraw
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