John McGraw Quotes (17 Quotes)

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next.

I think we can win it if my brain holds out.

The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

The main idea is to win.

My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other ninety-nine percent are followers of women.

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.

They showed such big hearts and I was really touched by these kids. Elderly folks in the community just really don't have anybody. It was awesome.

Cobb would have to play center field on my all time team. But where would that put Speaker? In left. If I had them both, I would certainly play them that way.

This is purely a voter contact trip -- a chance to let voters here in California know him a little bit better,

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

We not only want to win the White House -- we want to keep our majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and California can be pivotal in that,