A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me. |
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. |
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. |
Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are. |
Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players. |
Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players. |
Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July. |
Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score. |
Frank was the most intense ballplayer I've ever seen. He played the game as hard as anybody. He never, ever gave up on an at-bat no matter what the score was. He'd get a big hit. He went into the stands in New York to make a catch. But what's important is, he did these things every day. |
He was a happy person and was loved and welcomed wherever he went. |
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. |
I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson. |
I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions. |
I think my job as manager going into spring is basically going to be to work the entire Spring Training on learning how to win games in different kind of ways, |
I think the National League has better biorhythms in July. |