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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
— Earl Weaver
This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
— Earl Weaver
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.'
— Earl Weaver
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.
— Earl Weaver
If you know how to cheat, start now.
— Earl Weaver
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
I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.
— Earl Weaver
Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
— Earl Weaver
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.
— Earl Weaver
Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.
— Earl Weaver
The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.
— Jim Palmer
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
— Earl Weaver
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.
— Earl Weaver
I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.
— Earl Weaver
We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.
— Earl Weaver
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
— Earl Weaver
Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
— Earl Weaver
I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
— Earl Weaver
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.
— Earl Weaver
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
— Earl Weaver
Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
— Earl Weaver
There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.
— Earl Weaver
Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.
— Earl Weaver
Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.
— Earl Weaver
I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.
— Earl Weaver
Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.
— Earl Weaver