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There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.

Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel
New York Yankees
Manager
HOF 1966

If you've got a guy who can hit well from both sides of the plate, he's the greatest weapon you can have.

Johnny B. "Dusty" Baker
San Francisco Giants
Manager

I didn't realize it was big until our first year and we got our butts beat. Then I said, 'No, no, no, no -- that can't happen anymore.'

Understanding the importance of the interleague White Sox vs. Cubs city series to Sox fans and now setting up pitching matchups as if it were a playoff series

Jerry Manuel
Chicago White Sox
Manager
Contributed by: Lee Gibbs

You got a hundred more young kids than you have a place for on your club. Every one of them has had a going away party. They kissed everybody and said, "See you in the majors in two years." You see these poor kids who shouldn't be there in the first place. You write on the report card "4-4-4 and out." That's the lowest rating in everything. Then you call 'em in and say, "It's the consensus among us that we're going to let you go back home." If you say it mean enough, maybe they do themselves a favor and don't waste years learning what you can see in a day. They don't have what it takes to make the majors, just like I never had it.

Weaver's number, 4, is one of the only numbers ever retired by the Baltimore Orioles

Earl Sidney Weaver
Baltimore Orioles
Manager
HOF 1996

Contributed by: Jonathan Chapman

I don't know much about guns. I'm not Charlton Heston.

When asked about a radar gun reading

James Francis "Jimy" Williams
Boston Red Sox
Manager

There were times we were so loose I thought we were serving beer and pizza in the dugout.

On the atmosphere during the 1999 season under Manager Mike Hargrove

Charles Fuqua "Charlie" Manuel
Cleveland Indians
Manager

Two stars and a bum.

Commenting on the fact that there have been only three shortstops to start a game in the major leagues at the age of 18; Alex Rodriguez, Robin Yount and Tony LaRussa

Anthony "Tony" LaRussa
St. Louis Cardinals
Manager
HOF 2014

The best lessons in baseball and life are the ones you learn yourself by your mistakes.

Dave Myers
Tacoma Rainiers
Manager
Contributed by: Jonathan Chapman

I was with the Yankees the spring (pitcher Mike) Kekich and (pitcher Fritz) Peterson switched wives.

With his team having dealt with John Rocker's suspension, John Smoltz's season-ending injury, and Andres Galarraga's return from cancer, recalling 1973 when asked whether he has ever had so tumultuous a spring

April, 2000
Robert Joseph "Bobby" Cox
Atlanta Braves
Manager
HOF 2014

He was to people all over the world what a baseball player was supposed to be like. If you said to God, 'Create someone who was what a baseball player should be', God would have created Joe DiMaggio. ...and he did.

On Joe DiMaggio

Thomas Charles "Tommy" Lasorda
Los Angeles Dodgers
Manager
HOF 1997

Contributed by: Mag

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