Earl Weaver Quotes

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.'

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

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

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

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.'

I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.