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Top 30 Earl Weaver Quotes (2025 Update)

Earl Weaver Quote: “Leadership can be defined in one word – honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.”

1. “Leadership can be defined in one word – honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “Momentum? Momentum is the next day’s starting pitcher.”

2. “Momentum? Momentum is the next day’s starting pitcher.”

— Earl Weaver

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Earl Weaver Quote: “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.”

3. “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 Quote: “If you know how to cheat, start now.”

4. “If you know how to cheat, start now.”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.”

5. “Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.”

6. “Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.”

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

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “I’d rather you walk with the bases loaded.”

8. “I’d rather you walk with the bases loaded.”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn’t going to win any more games by being anything else.”

9. “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 Quote: “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.”

10. “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 Quote: “On my tombstone just write, ‘The sorest loser that ever lived.’”

11. “On my tombstone just write, ‘The sorest loser that ever lived.’”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “This ain’t a football game, we do this every day.”

12. “This ain’t a football game, we do this every day.”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.”

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

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “No one’s gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.”

14. “No one’s gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.”

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

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “Coaches are an integral part of any manager’s team, especially if they are good pinochle players.”

18. “Coaches are an integral part of any manager’s team, especially if they are good pinochle players.”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “I don’t think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.”

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

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.”

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

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “Don’t worry, the fans don’t start booing until July.”

21. “Don’t worry, the fans don’t start booing until July.”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there’s a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry.”

22. “Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there’s a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry.”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like ‘C’mon Boog,’ ‘Get a hold of one, Frank,’ or ‘Let’s go, Brooks.’”

23. “My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like ‘C’mon Boog,’ ‘Get a hold of one, Frank,’ or ‘Let’s go, Brooks.’”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “The guy who says, ‘I love the challenge of managing,’ is one step from being out of a job. I don’t welcome any challenge. I’d rather have nine guys named Robinson.”

24. “The guy who says, ‘I love the challenge of managing,’ is one step from being out of a job. I don’t welcome any challenge. I’d rather have nine guys named Robinson.”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.”

25. “I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn’t ask questions.”

26. “I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn’t ask questions.”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.”

27. “The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can’t tolerate anyone’s mistake.”

28. “Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can’t tolerate anyone’s mistake.”

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.”

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

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “We’re so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.”

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

— Earl Weaver

Earl Weaver Quote: “I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.”

31. “I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.”

— Earl Weaver

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