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| Sparky Anderson
". .. if you have to choose between power and speed-and it often turns out you have to make that choice-you've got to go for speed. In today's baseball, pitching is getting so special that a team at bat doesn't dare consider the big inning. You have to score piecemeal with your legs. You must go for the guys who steal and who take the extra base on a hit.""A baseball manager is a necessary evil.""Babe Ruth is dead and buried in Baltimore, but the game is bigger and better than ever.""Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players, and if you keep them in the right frame of mind, then the manager is a success. The players make the manager; it's never the other way.""He is Cincinnati. He's the Reds.""He's such a big, strong guy he should love that porch. He's got power enough to hit home runs in any park, including Yellowstone.""I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him with Johnny Bench.""I've changed my mind about it. Instead of being bad, it stinks.""If I hear him say just once more he's doing something for the betterment of baseball, I'm going to throw up.""It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.""It's all kind of crazy, and it all started with a fellow named Catfish Hunter. He showed the world how foolish some owners can be. Catfish went home to Ahoskie, North Carolina, and did nothing but sit there, holding court. The owners came to him with fortunes. This is how the madness began. If a guy wants to get drunk and wrap his car around a pole, that's his business; but when he hurts others, you've got another story. Everyone got drawn into the spending, and that's why all you hear in spring camps today are arguments over money.""My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.""Power should never be used. The manager who uses power has lost control. Common sense - that's the key. It's what I talk to them about. I have no rules, but they know how I feel about long hair and a number of other things. I can't count how many times I've told them that I think it's a disgrace when you see a guy who's a hell of a player who isn't also a hell of a person.""Some teams never win. They've got four or five guys who never care about anything. They don't want the grind of the full six months. As soon as things start to go bad, they crack and just go for themselves. Talent is one thing. Being able to go from spring to October is another.""The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.""The man I marvel at is the one that's in there day after day and night after night and still puts the figures on the board. I'm talking about Pete Rose, Stan Musial, the real stars. Believe me, especially the way we travel today, flying all night with a game the next night and then the next afternoon, if you can play 162 games, you're a man.""The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.""The only thing I believe is this: 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.""They're 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've never seen a team win a pennant without players . . . I think the only thing the manager has to do is keep things within certain boundaries.""This game has taken a lot of guys over the years, who would have had to work in factories and gas stations, and made them prominent people. I only had a high-school education and, believe me, I had to cheat to get that. There isn't a college in the world that would have me. And yet in this business you can walk into a room with millionaires, doctors, professional people and get more attention than they get. I don't know any other business where you can do that."A baseball manager is a necessary evil. Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success. 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 only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain. If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing. It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them. Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings. The only thing I believe is this: 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. They're loyal Royal all the way. But, they're not tough fans, a player does not have to worry about being insulted there. You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun. |
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