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Earl Weaver Quotes

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

– Earl Weaver

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

– Earl Weaver

Don’t play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.

– Earl Weaver

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

– Earl Weaver

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

– Earl Weaver

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

– Earl Weaver

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.

– Earl Weaver

Until you’re the person that other people fall back on, until you’re the one that’s leaned on, not the person doing the leaning, you’re not an adult.

– Earl Weaver

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

– Earl Weaver

I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.

– Earl Weaver

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

– Earl Weaver

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.

– Earl Weaver

I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

– Earl Weaver

I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can’t beat the other guys more often than they beat you?

– Earl Weaver

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.

– Earl Weaver

Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not… I think my baseball judgment was really good.

– Earl Weaver

You must remember that anyone under 30 – especially a ballplayer – is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn’t mean you’re grown up.

– Earl Weaver

If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I’m not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I’ve got to say something to the guy.

– Earl Weaver

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

– Earl Weaver

I don’t want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.

– Earl Weaver

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

– Earl Weaver

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

– Earl Weaver

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