Earl Weaver Quotes

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Earl Weaver

Profession : Coach

Birth : August 14, 1930

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

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

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

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

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.

Earl Weaver

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

Earl Weaver

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

Earl Weaver

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

Earl Weaver

I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.

Earl Weaver

I used to be a pretty good hit-and-run man when I played in the minors. I handled the bat well and could hit the ball to the right side of the infield. Nevertheless, I know that you often give the opposition an out on the hit-and-run play.

Earl Weaver

A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.

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

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

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

A manager has to convince his hitters that they have to get on base for the next guy and that no player can do it by himself. Sometimes that isn't easy. In the playoffs, you can get into trouble because everybody wants to be a hero.

Earl Weaver

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.

Earl Weaver

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

Earl Weaver

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

Earl Weaver

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.

Earl Weaver

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.

Earl Weaver