Don Zimmer Quotes (9 Quotes)

It's like seeing a 3,000 racehorse running against a 1-million horse. You always think the million-dollar horse is going to win, right That's baseball.

We ask each other about it in the coach's room every day. What do you think is going to happen Nobody knows anything. All I know is Lou's got a contract for next year, and all the coaches have contracts, too.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

We won '98, '99 and 2000. I don't think you'll see that again. I really don't believe you'll see a team win three World Series in a row. Not that we were so much better than everybody else, but that's how hard it is to even win one World Series.

When Yogi hit the ball down the left-field line, with Amoros' speed and being a left-handed thrower -- a right-handed thrower probably couldn't have caught the ball. I always kid around with people. I say, 'I was very important in that seventh game.' You don't win many games by being taken out of the game.

I don't think so. I have a good job. I'm getting up in years. I don't want to manage. That's out of the question. Nobody has to ask to me. That's the way it is.

I don't want to, anyway. I've got a job here with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. I'm at home and I don't want to leave home. Living at home is a big plus after you've been gone from home for 55 years.

Of course, I was there eight years. Seven of the eight years, we had a team. A team. You know what I mean by team A team. I think when you go through so many players and changes, that tends to drift away a little bit.

Someone will say he's too young of a guy. Well, only thee years ago they hired an older man who took them to the promised land,