Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either.

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

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.

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

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.

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

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

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

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.

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

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

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

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

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

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

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

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

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

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

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver

A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.