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The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.
I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.
That's the reality of it. Everybody has a big two or three. The health of those big two or three ... there's a lot riding on it.
The Yankees had to fight all year to get in. When you're fighting all year and fighting all year, it wears you out a little bit.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.
I work from a position of positivity always. I don't dwell on negativity, and I always believe something better's on the horizon.
In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.
Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."
I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.
If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.
It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.
You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.
Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.
I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
I hope the car they (Sport Magazine who awarded it to the World Series MVP) give him (Brooks Robinson) has an extra large glove box.
The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908. The last time they were in one was 1945. Hey, any team can have a bad century.
You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.
All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.
There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.
There's always a sense of pride you take out on the field to play your best every night you go out there. Sometimes your best stinks.
As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.
I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first.
Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election]
He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out.
I've always said I'd rather see a club that's won 10 or 12 in a row than a club that's lost 10 or 12 in a row because they're tougher.
But overall I've always learned to play well in the sandbox with the people I'm working with. I think that's my minor-league training.
...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.
It's not easy to play a guy in the field after he's just pitched. There's a time for arm recovery too that you have to be cognizant of.
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
(Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases.
To just be all analytically inclined or heartbeat inclined, you are going to lose; you are not going to be the best version of yourself.
Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.
I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.
Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's been taught properly and well.
I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.
Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.
I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.
If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.
Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds.
Pete (Rose) doesn't run with celebrities and he can't stand the phonies. His big buddy in LA ain't Sinatra, it's a funny old groundskeeper.
You get to the ninth inning and your stomach is clear up to here. But it's not because of your job. It is because you want to win so badly.
It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain't over 'til it's over!
The game of baseball is made up of many little things. If we do all the little things right, then we'll never have a big thing to worry about
Players from the Dominican Republic have a history of not playing well in cold weather.... The ball hurts their hands when they make contact.
Of course you don't want to make outs on the bases , but there are times you have to be assertive in order to get other things that you want.
I'll never forget the first time I rode a bike with pedal straps. I stopped at a traffic light and fell over like Arte Johnson in 'Laugh-In.'