Earl Weaver Quotes

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

"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."

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

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

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

"When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet."

"People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either."

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

"A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year."

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

"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."

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

"The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat."

"In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs."

"I think the National League has better biorhythms in July."

"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."

"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."

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

"I think there should be bad blood between all clubs."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one."

"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs."

"There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself."

"The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles."

"The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job."

"Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time."