Earl Weaver

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

I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings. ”

A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him. ”

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

The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job. ”

Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life. ”

The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart. ”

I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers. ”

You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up. ”

To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them. ”