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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

I’ll tell you what I think about it. I think that is very, very bad for that man to make an accusation like that. That is terrible. I have never, ever, since I’ve managed, ever told a pitcher to throw at anybody, nor will I ever, and if I ever did, I certainly wouldn’t make him throw at a (bleepin’) .130 hitter like Lefebvre, or (bleepin’) Bevacqua, who couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a (bleepin’) boat, and I guaran-(bleepin’)-tee you this, when I pitched, and I was gonna pitch against a (bleepin’) team that had guys on it like Bevacqua, I’d send a (bleepin’) limousine to get the sucker to make sure he was in the mother-(bleepin’) lineup because I’d kick that sucker’s ass any (bleepin’) day of the week. He’s a (bleepin’) mother-(bleepin’) big mouth, I’ll tell you that.

To reporters when asked about Padres IF Kurt Bevaqua’s comment following a game in which Dodgers pitcher Tom Niedenfuer was fined $500 for beaning Joe Lefebvre of the Padres, after which Bevacqua, Lefebvre’s teammate, was quoted in the papers as saying, “The guy they should have fined was the guy who ordered Niedenfuer to throw at Joe...that fat little Italian.”

July 1982
Thomas Charles "Tommy" Lasorda
Los Angeles Dodgers
Manager
HOF 1997

Yeah, but the last time you faced him was this same inning.

When managing the Mets and pitcher Tug McGraw wanted to be left in the game after saying that he wasn't tired and that he'd struck out the batter he was about to face in his preceding at-bat

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

What's everyone blaming me for? Blame Felix. I wouldn't have hit into the double plays if he hadn't hit singles.

When playing for the Mets, after bouncing into four double plays in one game, each time wiping out Felix Millan, who batted in front of him and went 4-for-4

In 1975
Joseph Paul "Joe" Torre
New York Yankees
Manager
HOF 2014

You're supposed to slide.

On why he would fine his players $5 whenever they were tagged out standing up

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

The average hitter is a struggling hitter. If you're at .250 or .260, where most players find themselves, it never comes easy. You have to go out and grind it out, day after day, just to stay at that level. A .250 hitter hits one ball good every night, and if it happens to go right at somebody, he's in trouble.

James Gottfried "Jim" Frey
Kansas City Royals
Manager

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