Top 1200 Baseball Managers Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

Active investment is a zero-sum game. Passive managers don't play the game. They buy something resembling the market as a whole, or some segment of the market, and they don't respond to the actions of active managers.

Baseball is all I ever wanted. I could eat, sleep, and dream baseball.

I just wanted to play baseball because I liked baseball. I never was giving up on football.

My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.

Once you get the hang of how all this works, it's no biggie. It's baseball, man. It's baseball.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.

I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

Young English managers don't get enough time, young black managers aren't given enough time, there are a lot of reasons why.

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.

There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.

A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers.

Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

I'll say it again: you've got to put the argument back in the game. They're trying to make baseball mechanized, a machine. They're ruining baseball.

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late.

High level policy makers and program managers do not normally listen to the voices of local people, local providers and local program managers when they make decisions about contraceptive introduction or other aspects of program development in reproductive health.

Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.

It's bad for baseball to have owners who can benefit another business by losing money in baseball.

We have a terrific team, and our managers are terrific managers, but we have made it too complicated for them and too complicated in a way that they just can't do an excellent job in many cases when it comes to the customer experience.

When managers overdo micromanaging of others, they probably hired the wrong people or failed to give them a clear idea of what each one is to accomplish. I prefer to train employees to be self-managers, just as in an orchestra each performer knows his or her role without being micromanaged.

It's the spirit of Dominicans coming out and the pride that we have in our music and our baseball players. Dominicans love two things: politics and baseball. When we're not talking politics, we're talking baseball.

Baseball has been very good to me, but baseball has evolved into a hybrid of work and passion.

Baseball was my main sport, but I peaked when I reached high school and so my baseball career stopped.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

Basketball has always been a sport I loved and grew up playing. For me, it was one of those things that... I guess baseball was just in my genes a little bit. I have a lot of cousins that played baseball. Basketball is not an easy sport - you definitely got to be gifted to play that game. I felt like I was pretty good at it, but my ability was better in baseball.

One of the biggest challenges we face today is finding managers who can sense and respond to rapid shifts, people who can process new information very quickly and make decisions in real time. It's a problem for the computer industry as a whole - and not just for Dell - that the industry's growth has outpaced its ability to create managers.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

Baseball wasn't necessarily my first sport in terms of liking it. I'd never played baseball or softball growing up.

I've done it the correct way with the coaching badges. I have done watching the games, I have done listening to managers, I have done travelling around Europe watching other managers train, I have done a bit of TV work to help with analysis.

I grew up in Miami watching baseball down there, so you could see it from one extreme to the next. It was like, 'Well, this is what baseball is about.'

The rest of what I learned about baseball came from Peter Gammons, the Boston Globe`s best baseball writer when I was in high school.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.

I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.

If I didn't play baseball I don't know what I would do. It just doesn't seem right if I go a day without baseball.

Baseball-wise, the Orioles specifically love that I haven't pitched as much as other guys coming into Major League Baseball.

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

I always enjoyed the training part of baseball. I went to play college baseball and decided it wasn't for me.

Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter. I played baseball as the number three or number four hitter. Playing baseball, I was the third baseman or pitcher. Football, I was the quarterback. I was always versatile. It came to me naturally. It was always easy.

The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.

I got into baseball, and everyone just started calling me a geek, like, 'There's the nerd from Harvard.' Then it took 20 years of working in baseball and me actually leaving and going to football for people to say, 'He's the baseball guy.' So maybe at some point I'll be known as a football guy too.

Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.