Top 153 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Baseball Managers - Page 2

Baseball will be back to Montreal, I want to see it. I want it to happen before I die. I will see it

Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.

What makes Jay Johnstone unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.

The ultimate compliment a customer can make to an organization about one of its marketing people is: "I'm not sure whether your sales rep works for me or for you."

What makes a good leadoff hitter? Deion Sanders had speed, but he wasn't the ideal leadoff hitter. What was his on-base percentage? The criteria shouldn't be speed, it should be getting on base.

If anybody says they get used to it, you don't.

I think we're out on a limb right now, hanging over a cliff, and we're trying to find a way to get back.

The doctor said I should do a lot of walking, so I walk to the mound nine or ten times a game.

At IBM everybody sells! Every employee has been trained to think that the customer comes first - everybody from the CEO, to the people in finance, to the receptionists, to those who work in manufacturing.

EMA research evidences strong and growing interest in leveraging log data across multiple infrastructure planning and operations management use cases. But to fully realize the potential complementary value of unstructured log data, it must be aligned and integrated with structured management data, and manual analysis must be replaced with automated approaches. By combining the RapidEngines capabilities with its existing solution, SevOne will be the first to truly integrate log data into an enterprise-class, carrier-grade performance management system.

There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in.

Derek Jeter has been a great representative of what the Yankees have stood for over the years. He has been a team player who has only cared about winning. He has also been a fine example both on and off the field over his long tenure as a Yankee. It has been a real pleasure to manage him and play alongside him.

Whenever we play the Twins, Torii Hunter has a major impact on defense. He tells the left fielder and the right fielder to take the day off and he covers the whole outfield.

I believe that the time to start thinking about your legacy is not at the end but at the beginning, because as I said, that's when you're able to do something about it.

You can't run a mule in the Kentucky Derby.

I didn't know whether to laugh, s*it, or go blind!

In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can't worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get thrown out, but in the bigger scheme, the bases we're going to take will far outweigh that occasional misread. And it depends on what you call a mistake. If the outfielder puts the ball right on the money, he's out by a quarter-step and it's a bang-bang play, that's not a mistake. That's baseball. If you're out by four or five steps, it's ugly, it's a misread, but in the big picture, that aggressiveness is going to help us more than the occasional blunder will hurt.

You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait.

Still. Smokers out there, you know what I'm talking about. That moment, after you've had a huge meal, say at Thanksgiving, when you step outside in the cold, light up a cigarette and take a deep inhale ... that's about the best moment in the world, you know? All the smokers out there, you know that feeling. Sometimes, smoking is fantastic.

When somebody talks about your career, most people are gonna talk about wins and losses, a World Series or pennants. But if somebody asked me how I would sum up my career I would say I had a unbelievable, fabulous career.

It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again.

I'm easy to please and hard to satisfy.

I'm only interested in winning ball games and I can't be worrying about whether the sun's out or the moon's out.

My favorite umpire is a dead one.

Hey, any team can have a bad century.

It is beyond my apprehension.

There'll be two buses leaving the hotel for the park tomorrow. The 2:00 bus will be for those of you who need a little extra work. The empty bus will leave at 5:00.

It takes time to get the whole package. Freshmen can't be seniors.

. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . .

We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.

Everyone is against Harry (Truman) except the people.

Barry Bonds was like Joe Namath or Muhammad Ali. He could make a statement and go out and back it up. Not a lot of guys can do that. In fact, managers usually cringe when guys make statements about what they're going to do. In Barry's case, I liked it. I think he did it on purpose to motivate himself. In a lot of ways, it's easy for Barry. I think he needs a little controversy around him.

I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there’s media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.

No big league team is having a gathering like this 2 days before the season

That's why I cut my hair so short. It was getting a little gray.

You're not always going to be at your best, but it better be the best you've got that day.

I want players to look neat and responsible. Maybe it's old school, but it's kind of neat when people are always clean.

Sometimes you wonder why the only luck we have is bad luck. But you move on.

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

Everything is possible to him that dares.

. . . the world is filled with the kind of customers who deserve the care and attention I advocate, and I'd be willing to jump through hoops to win and keep them.

I didn't feel good today- little things here and there- but that's the nature of this game. You just keep pushing, being mentally and physically ready. Some days are better than others, but even if you don't feel so good, you get yourself going.

Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.

Until the day I die, I will be pulling for Ned Colletti.

A lot of people have the answers after the results come in.

Everyone in the world disagrees with me, including some managers, but I think managing in the American League is much more difficult for that very reason (having the designated hitter). In the National League, my situation is dictated for me. If I'm behind in the game, I've got to pinch hit. I've got to take my pitcher out. In the American League, you have to zero in. You have to know exactly when to take them out of there. In the National League, that's done for you.

The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.

I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.

I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy.

There's a difference in a player that has a job and a player that doesn't have a job.

I'm a believer that some messages are not meant to be shared publicly. They're meant to stay inside the clubhouse.

I won't quit on a player who doesn't quit on himself.

Good people need room to develop. They have to find their own voice . . . each IBMer is a businessperson working within the framework of the company structure.

Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you find exists. Honesty is integral to ethical behavior, and trustworthiness is essential for good, lasting relationships.

First, there is the law. It must be obeyed. But the law is the minimum. You must act ethically.

You start playing when it's cold and you want to be playing when it's cold again.

There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.

The people in New York have no idea what they're doing.

Character is forged not on the mountaintop but in the valley.

We need our veterans to set an example, like being the first ones there. A veteran is entitled to a bigger paycheck, but not a special set of rules.