32 Quotes by John McGraw

Get in front of the ball, you won’t get hurt. That’s what you’ve got a chest for, young man.

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player – if best things already happened, what’s next?

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I’m out in front and winning. I don’t give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him – with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don’t, I fine them.