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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

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It'll be baseball, and it'll be guys that I know. I don't think I'd ever catch up with the major leagues again -not that I'm that old or that slow.

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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

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I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.

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Frank was the most intense ballplayer I've ever seen. He played the game as hard as anybody. He never, ever gave up on an at-bat no matter what the score was. He'd get a big hit. He went into the stands in New York to make a catch. But what's important is, he did these things every day.

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Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

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Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

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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.

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I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

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

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I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.

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We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

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

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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.

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Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

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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.

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Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

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

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The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.

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

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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.

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