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My coaching staff gets to go to the World Series. From a financial perspective that's great for coaches because baseball coaches in the Major League level don't really make that much money. People don't realize that.
Sep 10, 2025
Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.
It gets late early out there.
When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.
The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.
To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
How can you think and hit at the same time?
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.
I posted some story about the Arizona State baseball coach getting into a fight with an autograph hound, and it was a disastrous thing. The guy rescinded his story. It proved to me that I'm not cut out to be a proper journalist. I'm much better sitting around and making fun of journalists and telling them what terrible journalists they are than being an actual journalist.
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do