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There is but one game, and that game is baseball.

John Joseph McGraw
New York Giants
Manager
HOF 1937

I've got a doubles clause.

While an Orioles infielder, after he pulled up at second with a double that could easily have been a triple, and asked by teammates why he didn't even try for third base

David Allen "Davey" Johnson
Los Angeles Dodgers
Manager

Statistics can be misleading. When Drysdale or Gibson pitched, for example, the other team never scored any runs, but when I pitched, they always scored runs.

On his 0-4 Major League pitching record

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

See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.

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

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

Earl Sidney Weaver
Baltimore Orioles
Manager
HOF 1996

You ever see a batting practice pitcher drop dead? Men drop dead shoveling snow but not pitching batting practice. That's why I pitch batting practice.

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

He passed the bar exam, and there were times when I hardly passed a bar.

On the differences between him and close friend Tony LaRussa (Oakland A's manager)

Jim Leyland
Pittsburgh Pirates
Manager
New York Daily News - March 28, 1998

I told Roland to go out and get me a big-name pitcher. He said Wehrmeister's got 11 letters. Is that a big enough name for me?

After White Sox GM Roland Hemond acquired Dave Wehrmeister

Eddie Einhorn
Chicago White Sox
Manager

The kid is the greatest proof of reincarnation. Nobody could get that stupid in one lifetime.

After a player was thrown out trying to steal home with one out

Joseph Vincent "Joe" McCarthy
New York Yankees
Manager
HOF 1957

He's such a big, strong guy he should love that porch. He's got power enough to hit home runs in any park, including Yellowstone.

On Willie Stargell batting in Tiger Stadium in the 1971 All Star game.

George Lee "Sparky" Anderson
Detroit Tigers
Manager
HOF 2000

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