Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are. Earl Weaver More Quotes by Earl Weaver More Quotes From Earl Weaver A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team. Earl Weaver manager team games winter Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time. Earl Weaver you hurt work time 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 you hero easy sometimes 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 live me people school There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself. Earl Weaver myself you long people The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit. Earl Weaver key right step left
