Words matter. These are the best Earl Weaver Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don’t make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
Until you’re the person that other people fall back on, until you’re the one that’s leaned on, not the person doing the leaning, you’re not an adult.
I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.
This ain’t a football game, we do this every day.
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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 became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn’t going to win any more games by being anything else.
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 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.
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.
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.
Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I’d never retire. But managing is work. It’s constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
Momentum? Momentum is the next day’s starting pitcher.
The key step for an infielder is the first one… but before the ball is hit.
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.
Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
People always make a lot about how I don’t carry grudges. That’s my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can’t live with hatred inside of me. That’s what I learned. I ain’t scared of dying, either.
The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not… I think my baseball judgment was really good.
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.
Nobody likes to hear it, because it’s dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same – pitching.
No one’s gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
The Orioles made me. I didn’t make the Orioles.
A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.
Don’t worry, the fans don’t start booing until July.
I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can’t beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
