I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.
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I know this much It's going to be 35 degrees in Detroit. So if you stiffen up and get cold sitting around and can't play, you're going to have problems.Jim Leyland
It was a weak ground ball that got a run home. It was a free RBI. He battled his tail off and got the run in. It wasn't pretty, but that's the difference between 100 RBIs and 85. It doesn't look like a line drive in the paper, but it looked real important to me. That's the kind of stuff you're looking for.
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This is just the perfect example of a very talented player with a lot of determination. He's a manager's dream-type player. Not only does he come to the park to beat the other team, but he does the little things to beat the other team. To a manager, he's
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That's a no-brainer. He's one of the best baseball men I've been around. When you get somebody of that quality that happens to be such a close friend, that's even nicer.
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I've got a few years left in me.
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That's good, real good. If a guy does that 50 or 60 times, that's phony, but what he did today was real.
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