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Baseball Coach Inspirational Quotes (96)

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If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living.
Andy Van Slyke
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Mario Lemieux is Mr. Pittsburgh.
Andy Van Slyke
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They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
Andy Van Slyke
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It seems like Satan has thrown the DH into our game.
Andy Van Slyke
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He (Ozzie Smith) plays like he's on a mini-trampoline or wearing helium kangaroo shorts.
Andy Van Slyke
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I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.
Andy Van Slyke
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The biggest adjustment from the minors was learning to spend $45 in meal money.
Andy Van Slyke
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With the Cardinals everybody would be reading the business section to see what their stocks were doing. You get to this locker room (Pirates) in the morning and everybody is looking at the sports page to see if Hulk Hogan won.
Andy Van Slyke
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My idea for a Buddhist video game: No guns. Self-immolate instead. Get reincarnated. Repeat until you find Nirvana. Takes forever to play.
Dan Spencer
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The Gold Glove surprised me a little. To tell you the truth, I didn't expect it. I feel I played at the top of my game, but I was new to the league and I didn't think that many people would vote for me.
Omar Vizquel
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How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town? It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliché - but why worry about things you have no control over? What I can do is try to get this club to continue to play well. That's all I can do.
Mike Quade
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Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.
Andy Van Slyke
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Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana.
Don Mattingly
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The players get no respect around here. They (the Yankees) give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here.
Don Mattingly
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We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.
Mike Quade
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As a bench coach in Anaheim I used to sit down below with Sosh (Scioscia) on that little area, and then when you'd get up on top, it was an entirely different vibe, man. Two, three steps up, it's a different vibe. You feel everything.
Joe Maddon
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I don't say anything. One of the reporters asked me in the scrum in there, and I said, no, I didn't say anything to anybody. I can only hurt them right now. I cannot help them.
Joe Maddon
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I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.
Andy Van Slyke
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How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?
Mike Quade
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When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.
Chili Davis
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I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.
Don Baylor
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If I'm a pitcher, my only point would be that if I'm a relief pitcher, I think I like the idea of warming up on the field.
Joe Maddon
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We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.
Don Mattingly
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They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.
Mike Quade
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