Sparky Anderson Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Baseball, Moving, Looks

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

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• 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.

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  Sports, People, Tickets

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

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  Baseball, Cheating, Believe

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• Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

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  Sports, Sunglasses, Briefcases

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• 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.

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  Choices, Speed, Turns

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• If a team is in a positive frame of mind, it will have a good attitude. If it has a good attitude, it will make a commitment to playing the game right. If it plays the game right, it will win-unless, of course, it doesn't have enough talent to win, and no manager can make goose-liver pate out of goose feathers, so why worry?

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  Attitude, Team, Commitment

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• 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.

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  Baseball, Kissing, Years

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• A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

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  Baseball, Evil, Sports Psychology

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• I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first.

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  Sleep, Paper, Firsts

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• Mike Laga will make you forget about every power hitter that ever lived.

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  Forget, Mike

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• They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

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  Sports, Real, Guarantees

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• My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

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  Sports, Ideas, Giving

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• The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.

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  Sandy

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

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  Sports, Baseball, Team

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• Pete Rose is baseball.

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  Baseball, Rose

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

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  Baseball, Thinking, Pitching

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• 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 one-hundred and sixty-two games, you're a man.

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  Stars, Real, Believe

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• You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

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  Winning, Gambling, Games

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• The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give... Win or lose the game is finished. It's over. It's time to forget and prepare for the next one.

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  Motivational, Sports, Winning

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

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• 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.

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  Respect, Player, Doe

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• He's (Jose Canseco) built like a Greek goddess.

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  Greek, Goddess, Greek God

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• 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?

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  Sports, Believe, Winning

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• The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.

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  Sports, Schedules, Tomorrow

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• Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

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  Sports, Years, Limits

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

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• Chris Pittaro is the best rookie I've had in 15 years.

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  Years, Rookies

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