Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players? Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
A baseball manager is a necessary evil. Votes: 1
Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach. Votes: 1
If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager. Votes: 1
That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers. Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
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.' Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. Votes: 6 Babe Ruth
Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two. Votes: 4 Henry Mintzberg