Anytime you can send them you got to send them and take a chance, sometimes it doesn’t work but most of the time it does. Dusty Baker More Quotes by Dusty Baker More Quotes From Dusty Baker I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy. Dusty Baker consistencyplayerbaseball The only thing that's in my control is to win ballgames and God is always taking care of me. Dusty Baker ballgamecarewinning I'm not a guy that sits around and does nothing. Dusty Baker guydoe You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits. Dusty Baker hatebaseballtwo I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning. Turkey burgers, turkey bacon and that kind of stuff. She wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too. Dusty Baker daughtermothermorning I love the game of baseball. Dusty Baker i-lovegamebaseballlove I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too. Dusty Baker metimemorninglove He threw the ball well, he just didn't have the command. They fouled off a bunch of pitches too. Dusty Baker This guy, when he’s on he’s like a one-man wrecking crew, we did pitch him tough and I’m sure that he’s going to make the adjustment when we go out there very soon. Dusty Baker It feels great whenever you reach a goal. Dusty Baker I think about Hank Aaron and Jackie Robinson and Frank Robinson, who helped me a lot, Bill Walsh, all the general managers and owners I've had, whether Hank Aaron and Jackie Robinson fired me eventually or not, it just sort of added to my perseverance and determination and faith. I've also got to thank my detractors for giving me the motivation to go on because there's a lot of people that doubted me in the beginning when I first got the job with no experience, a lot of them that doubted me even though I was winning. Dusty Baker We’re going to try to figure out how to keep him healthy, how much his workload is — this new and improved Verlander versus the excellent Verlander of the past, also, I was there when Orel Hershiser had his Tommy John, and how good he was after Tommy John. And I was actually there with the real Tommy John. Dusty Baker Commercial time pays the bills, and that’s the reality of it all, you can cut down the commercial time, and then you've got to cut down the amount of money that’s passed around. Dusty Baker We don't worry about what other people say or what they think. It's what you think of yourself and what you think of each other on the team that really counts. Dusty Baker I think human nature is to overreact, personally. It's sort of short-sighted and you just see the feeling that you have at the moment, right now, what is it, best three out of five now ? We went from best four out of seven -- now, it's best three out of five. Dusty Baker He can say what he wants to say. I had never even heard his name before we played the White Sox. I’m not bothered by it. Most of my life, they’ve been talking stuff on me anyway. Let them talk, he had a song, ‘Before You Accuse Me (Take a Look at Yourself).’ That’s all I’ve got to say. Dusty Baker You know how I really feel inside, i need it, and I got to have it. Dusty Baker I’ve seen him score on that play many times. I like the aggressiveness from him. maybe he took his eye off Omar. Dusty Baker I don’t think two is enough, and I think 15 is too much because some teams will call up all 15 and some teams will call up four or five. You’re either outmanned, or you’ll outman them, we’ve gone from one drastic measure to another one. Dusty Baker We hit some balls hard on the road but nothing to show for it, so it was great for us to put up crooked numbers in all those consecutive innings, those guys didn’t take their foot off the pedal and that’s how you play, and that’s how I like to watch them play. Dusty Baker
