Sparky Anderson Quotes About Baseball

Quotes about: Baseball

• Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Baseball, Winning

• A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Evil, Sports Psychology

• I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Baseball, Benches

• 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.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Baseball, Curves

• 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.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Baseball, Simple

• Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players, and you keep them in the right frame of mind, the manager is a success. The players make the manager. It's never the other way. Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year. 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. Talent is one thing. Being able to go from spring to October is another. You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Running, Spring

• 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.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Grandchildren, Grandparent

• I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Cheating, Believe

• Our pitching could be better than I think it will be.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Thinking, Pitching

• Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.

  Sparky Anderson

  Leadership, Sports, Baseball

• We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Baseball, Team

• Pete Rose is baseball.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Rose

• Casey (Stengel) knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Moving, Looks

  Sparky Anderson (1991). “Sparky!”, Prentice Hall

• I managed 26 years and found out when I retired I didn't own the game. I thought I owned it when I was managing all those years. You can climb to the top of the mountain, get down on your knees and kiss the ground, because you'll never own that mountain. That mountain is only owned by one single person, and he'll never give it up. That's the way baseball is.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Kissing, Years

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