79 Quotes by Sparky Anderson

Our pitching could be better than I think it will be.

You can be whoever you want to be, you just have to want it bad enough.

If a team is in a positive frame of mind, it will have a good attitude. If it has a good attitude, it will make a commitment to playing the game right. If it plays the game right, it will win-unless, of course, it doesn't have enough talent to win, and no manager can make goose-liver pate out of goose feathers, so why worry?

I've changed my mind about it (DH) - instead of being bad, it stinks.

Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

This game has taken a lot of guys over the years who would have had to work in factories and gas stations and made them prominent people. I only had a high school education, and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. There isn't a college in the world that would have me and yet in this business you can walk into a room with millionaires, doctors, professional people and get more attention than they get. I don't know any other business where you can do that.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

Good seasons start with good beginnings.

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.