Earl Weaver famous quotes

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

#Running #Baseball #Winning

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

#Football #Games #Football Game

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

#Dull #Extraordinary Things #Extraordinary

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

#Water #Optimism #Mind

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

#Winning #Dull #Pitching

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

#Leadership #Sports #Honesty

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

#Team #Player #Coaches

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.
-- Earl Weaver

#Dollars #Three #Roles

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.
-- Earl Weaver

#Jobs #Smart #Simple

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

#Sports #Winning #Games

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.
-- Earl Weaver

#Sports #Baseball #Men

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.
-- Earl Weaver

#Hurt #Jobs #Team

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

#Tombstone #Writing #Loser

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

#Guy #Twenties

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

#Failing #Cigarette #Score

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

#Funny #Baseball #Wife

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

#Baseball #July #Games

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

#Baseball #Keys #Balls

There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.
-- Earl Weaver

#Stars #League #Inevitable

I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
-- Earl Weaver

#Thinking #Blood #Clubs

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

#Running #Home #Mean

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.
-- Earl Weaver

#Mistake #Player #Umpires

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.
-- Earl Weaver

#Running #Mistake #Team

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.'
-- Earl Weaver

#Horse #Dragons #Years

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.
-- Earl Weaver

#Jobs #Guy #Challenges

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
-- Earl Weaver

#Starting Over #Next #Momentum

You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
-- Earl Weaver

#Team #Winning #Agents

The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
-- Earl Weaver

#Littles #Matter #Fields

I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.
-- Earl Weaver

#Baseball #Walks #Bases

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.
-- Earl Weaver

#Baseball #Good Man #Way

Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
-- Earl Weaver

#July #Worry #Fans

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.
-- Earl Weaver

#Player #Far Away #Should

I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.
-- Earl Weaver

#Thinking #Years #Speech

I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
-- Earl Weaver

#Thinking #July #League

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.'
-- Earl Weaver

#Sports #Games #Psychology

If you know how to cheat, start now.
-- Earl Weaver

#Baseball #Cheat