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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

Yeah, you can pitch him low, but as soon as you throw the ball, run and hide behind second base.

Giving fatalistic advice on pitching to Ted Williams

Louis "Lou" Boudreau
Cleveland Indians
Manager

Go up and hit what you see. And if you don't see anything, come on back.

To his hitters on coping with Bob Feller's pitching

Stanley Raymond "Bucky" Harris
Washington Senators
Manager

What we're trying to do here is make chicken salad out of chicken shit.

During a bad season in 1949

Joseph Anthony "Joe" Kuhel
Washington Senators
Manager

Wayne, I think you're going to hit .290 this year -- but you're going to be doing it in Montgomery, Alabama.

To outfielder Wayne Comer, as Spring Training was coming to an end

In 1965
Edward Mayo Smith
Detroit Tigers
Manager

We are the ship; all else, the sea.

Describing Negro League baseball

Andrew Bishop "Rube" Foster
Chicago American Giants
Manager
HOF 1981

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