Baseball Managers Quotes:

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

- Sparky Anderson

topic: Player, Way, Baseball Managers

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

- Tommy Lasorda

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Inspirational Baseball, Sports Leadership

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

- Nolan Ryan

topic: Beautiful, Baseball, Want, Baseball And Life, Baseball Managers

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Baseball, League, Parent, Major League Baseball, Yankees Baseball

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

- Joe Maddon

topic: Baseball, Pressure, Pleasure, Baseball Managers

In baseball, you don't know nothin'.

- Yogi Berra

source: Yogi Berra (2001). “When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes”

topic: Baseball, Knows, Yankees Baseball, Famous Baseball, Baseball Managers

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

- Pete Rose

source: Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.69, Rodale

topic: Sports, Baseball, Play, Opening Day Baseball, Mlb

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

- Leo Durocher

source: Nice Guys Finish Last bk. 1 (1975)

topic: Motivational, Integrity, Sight, Great Baseball, Baseball Managers

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Baseball, Football, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball

I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?

- Sparky Anderson

topic: Sports, Believe, Winning, Baseball Managers

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

- Sparky Anderson

topic: Baseball, Evil, Necessary Evil, Baseball Managers

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Baseball, Yankees, Yankees Baseball, Deja Vu

Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

- Jay Mohr

topic: Baseball, Player, Dresses, Baseball Managers

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

- Babe Ruth

source: Babe Ruth, Bob Considine (1948). “The Babe Ruth story as told to Bob Considine: with 49 photos”

topic: Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games, Yankees Baseball, Motivational Baseball

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players, and you keep them in the right frame of mind, the manager is a success. The players make the manager. It's never the other way. Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year. A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules. Talent is one thing. Being able to go from spring to October is another. You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

- Sparky Anderson

topic: Running, Baseball, Spring, Baseball Managers, Frame Of Mind

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Sports, Lying, Baseball Managers, Greatest Baseball

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

- Tris Speaker

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Baseball, Luck, Tris, Baseball Managers

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

- Lou Gehrig

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Baseball, Games, Baseball Games, Famous Baseball

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Sports, Baseball, Singles, Home Run, Baseball Managers

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Money, Dimes, Good Money, Inspirational Money

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

- Frank Robinson

source: Quoted in Time, 31 July 1973. Usually attributed to Robinson, but slightly earlier evidence is found in the Guthrian (Guthrie County, Iowa), 26 Jan. 1970, which printed "Close only counts in horse shoes and grenades."

topic: Sports, Baseball, Horseshoes, Grenade, Baseball Fans

If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.

- Rickey Henderson

topic: Baseball, Dirty, Games, Baseball Managers

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

- Jim Abbott

topic: Beautiful, Baseball, Beautiful Things, Famous Baseball, Baseball And Life

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

- Earl Weaver

source: Earl Weaver, Terry Pluto (1984). “Weaver on Strategy”, Macmillan Publishing Company

topic: Baseball, Keys, Balls, Baseball Managers

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

- Bill Veeck

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Softball, Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.

- Bill Cosby

source: Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

topic: Baseball, Jobs, Children, Baseball Managers