Earl Weaver Quotes (27 Quotes)

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

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

Frank was the most intense ballplayer I've ever seen. He played the game as hard as anybody. He never, ever gave up on an at-bat no matter what the score was. He'd get a big hit. He went into the stands in New York to make a catch. But what's important is, he did these things every day.

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.

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

I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.

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

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

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

I think my job as manager going into spring is basically going to be to work the entire Spring Training on learning how to win games in different kind of ways,

It'll be baseball, and it'll be guys that I know. I don't think I'd ever catch up with the major leagues again -not that I'm that old or that slow.

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

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.

I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

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.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.

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 five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

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

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

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

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

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.

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

I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.