Baseball Managers Quotes

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.

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

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

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

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

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.

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

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

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?

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

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

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

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

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

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

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

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

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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