95 Quotes by Earl Weaver

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn’t going to win any more games by being anything else.

No one’s gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

On my tombstone just write, ‘The sorest loser that ever lived.’

This ain’t a football game, we do this every day.

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won’t hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don’t know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there’s a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry.

A manager’s job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Don’t worry, the fans don’t start booing until July.