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The Mets have shown me ways to lose I never knew existed.

Speaking as manager of the New York Mets

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

I tell him, "Attaway to hit, George."

When asked what advice he gives George Brett on hitting

In 1981
James Gottfried "Jim" Frey
Kansas City Royals
Manager

I found out that it’s not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don’t care and the other twenty percent are glad you’re having trouble.

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

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

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

It's really a nice baseball environment to play in, and I can't wait for the ivory to turn green. It means the weather is warming up and we're ready for a long, hot summer of baseball.

While managing the Chicago Cubs (2007-2010), Lou always referred to the ivy on Wrigley Field's outfield walls as "ivory"

Louis Victor "Lou" Piniella
Seattle Mariners
Manager

If they (the AL champion Chicago White Sox) threw some of the games they must be consummate actors, and their place is on the stage, for nothing in their playing gave us the impression they weren't doing their best...It is an astonishing thing to me that (they) could get away with that sort of thing and us not know it.

After the infamous 1919 World Series between his team and the "Black Sox"

Patrick Joseph "Pat" Moran
Cincinnati Reds
Manager

They (the Braves) started some sht. We finished the sht. And that’s how we roll. No one fks with us ever. Ever. All right. Now, I don’t give a fk who we play. We’re gonna fk them up. We’re gonna take it right to 'em the whole fking way. We’re gonna kick their f**king ass.

In his locker room speech after winning Game 5 of the NLDS against Atlanta to advance to the NLCS, where they were promptly dispatched in a sweep by Washington despite the pep talk

October 9, 2019
Mike Shildt
St. Louis Cardinals
Manager

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

Commenting on his team's ten-game losing streak

Daniel Leonard "Danny" Ozark
Philadelphia Phillies
Manager

I can't very well tell my batters, "Don't hit it to him." Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway.

On the prowess of Willie Mays in the outfield

Gilbert Raymond "Gil" Hodges
New York Mets
Manager

He'd hit 'em so high that everyone on the field thought he had a chance to get it. They'd all try to get under it to make the catch, and it looked like a union meeting.

Describing the response to a Babe Ruth pop fly

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

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