All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.
Quotes about dugout (16 Quotes)
Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager.
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.
It's not very normal, but Leyland's not afraid to yell at you from the dugout.
Leyland's not afraid to yell at you from the dugout. It's situational things, not pitch selection. When he says something, I take it to the bank. I trust what he says.
When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.
I saw more guys shaking their heads going to the dugout than I'd ever seen before. The thing about Alex Gonzalez is, he has the ability to make the tough play look routine.
He didn't even move. He just stood there at second. I talked to him in the dugout and he said he thought the ball was going to go foul. You still would be running. To me, that's not a good enough answer. So I just put the other guy out there and we move on.
People see what he does for us on the field, but what they don't see is what he does for our team in the dugout, in the clubhouse, in the hotels and on the airplanes. The beauty of him is that he pushes his teammates to be better. He's always up cheering and supporting them. He's not a selfish player.
It's not fear of striking out that makes me reluctant to step up to the plate. It's the fear of getting hit in the head by a 90 mph fastball, the pitcher coming off of the mound to stomp me with her cleats while I am down, the rest of the opposing team rushing out of the dugout hurling insults as they kick me and spit on me, while all along the crowd in the stands is cheering them on and laughing at my failure. So, no, it's not the fear of striking out that keeps me from stepping up to the plate.
Some of our kids don't even pay attention. I asked some of the kids in the dugout if they saw what happened on a play, and no one knew. You could give them a quiz at the end of an inning about what went on, and they'll get every question wrong.
I've been that kid shagging balls in the dugout when I didn't even know what the game was. I've learned a lot from my dad, but also just being around the game.
He was very encouraging and came into the dugout on Friday against South Africa, offering his support. But I never heard about that through official channels or anything like that.
I didn't ask him about the back. But I'm not going to ask him about it anymore. If he's able to go Sunday (his next scheduled appearance), he'll be there. I don't think he felt great because of some of the movements he was making in the dugout, but it's going to be Can he manage the pain.