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I was up there to get a hit. I wasn't trying to get hit.

On his MLB record hit-by-pitch stat of 267 over his 19-season playing career

Don Edward Baylor
Chicago Cubs
Manager

You know that saying, that you learn more from defeats than victories. Then we're going to become Einsteins. We're going to be rocket scientists. We're going to find a cure for cancer.

John Boles
Florida Marlins
Manager
Contributed by: Jonathan Chapman

Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch.

On catcher Chris Cannizaro (Stengel always called Cannizaro "Canzeroni")

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

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

George Lee "Sparky" Anderson
Detroit Tigers
Manager
HOF 2000

Contributed by: Jonathan Chapman

I've never cut a guy hitting that high before. But he was making the rest of us look bad with that average.

About demoting OF Drungo Hazewood to the minors after he batted .583 in spring training (Hazewood was brought back up late in the season and made a total of five at-bats, with four strikeouts and no hits, in six game appearances between September 19th and October 4th, which was the extent of his MLB career)

In March, 1980
Earl Sidney Weaver
Baltimore Orioles
Manager
HOF 1996

People make light of my optimistic outlook, such as, if I were captain of the Titanic, I would tell my passengers we were stopping for ice.

After yet another losing season

Charles William "Chuck" Tanner
Pittsburgh Pirates
Manager

We've got more MRIs than RBIs on this team.

On his team's nagging injuries during the 2000 season

Jack McKeon
Cincinnati Reds
Manager

In St. Paul, they'd throw pacifiers on a string over our dugout. Last year in Winnipeg, fans would dangle dead fish over the roof. It's a good thing that some people hate me, because it takes the pressure off my players...(But) I don't like getting heckled. I especially don't like people who yell, "Hey, Simunic! You sober?" That's out of bounds.

Having no reservations about his reputation around the league as a crybaby and a jerk

Doug Simunic
Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks
Manager
Northern League

They're like sharks. You give them a taste of blood, they come after you.

On playing the Yankees

Johnny Lane Oates
Texas Rangers
Manager

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

Reminiscing on his early days with the Braves and hitting a home run off of Whitey Ford during a spring training game and seeing Mickey Mantle watch it go over the fence

In 2000 on Whitey Ford Day
Joseph Paul "Joe" Torre
New York Yankees
Manager
HOF 2014

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