John McGraw quotes
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“Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.”
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“If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.”
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“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.”
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“The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.”
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“The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.”
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“He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.”
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“One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.”
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“One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.”
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“I think we can win it if my brain holds out.”
-- John McGraw -
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“Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.”
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“You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?”
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“There is but one game and that game is baseball.”
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“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.”
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