Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver
Earl Sidney Weaverwas an American professional baseball player, Hall of Fame Major League manager, author, and television broadcaster. After playing in minor league baseball, he retired without playing in Major League Baseball. He became a minor league manager, and then managed in MLB for 17 years with the Baltimore Orioles. Weaver's style of managing was summed up in the quote: "pitching, defense, and the three-run homer." He did not believe in placing emphasis on "small ball" tactics such as stolen...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth14 August 1930
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.
Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry.
I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.
No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.
Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.
The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.
Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.
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.
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.
On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal, getting thrown out, taking runs away from you. You get some big bleep bleepers that can hit the bleeping ball out of ballpark and you can't make any bleep bleeping mistakes.
My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.