95 Quotes by Earl Weaver

A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.

If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.

I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.

I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?

To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.

You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.

Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's leaned on, not the person doing the leaning, you're not an adult.

I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.

I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.