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Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players? -- Jay Mohr
In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18. -- Willie Geist
A baseball manager is a necessary evil. -- Sparky Anderson
Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach. -- Ken Harrelson
If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager. -- Lou Brock
That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers. -- Rollie Fingers
Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success. -- Sparky Anderson
Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.' -- George Brett
I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like. -- Carlton Cuse
If you seriously aspire to be a manager in the big leagues, there is a baseball 'book' that one must learn. Alongside that book, you must practice Spanish. Of 25 players on each roster, sometimes there are between eight and 15 players who speak Spanish. -- Tony La Russa
Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome. -- Christine Pelosi
When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did. -- Tommy Lasorda
I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years. -- Tommy Lasorda
Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave -- Durwood Merrill

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