Sparky Anderson Quotes
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He's (Jose Canseco) built like a Greek goddess.
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If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.
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Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.
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You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.
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I hope the car they (Sport Magazine who awarded it to the World Series MVP) give him (Brooks Robinson) has an extra large glove box.
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Pete Rose is baseball.
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Mike Laga will make you forget about every power hitter that ever lived.
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Chris Pittaro is the best rookie I've had in 15 years.
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We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.
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You can be whoever you want to be, you just have to want it bad enough.
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I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first.
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I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.
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Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.
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They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.
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The man I marvel at is the one that's in there day after day, and night after night and still puts the figures on the board. I'm talking about Pete Rose, Stan Musial, the real stars. Believe me, especially the way we travel today, flying all night with a game the next night and then the next afternoon, if you can play one-hundred and sixty-two games, you're a man.
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If a team is in a positive frame of mind, it will have a good attitude. If it has a good attitude, it will make a commitment to playing the game right. If it plays the game right, it will win-unless, of course, it doesn't have enough talent to win, and no manager can make goose-liver pate out of goose feathers, so why worry?
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Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year.
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I managed 26 years and found out when I retired I didn't own the game. I thought I owned it when I was managing all those years. You can climb to the top of the mountain, get down on your knees and kiss the ground, because you'll never own that mountain. That mountain is only owned by one single person, and he'll never give it up. That's the way baseball is.
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I don't know why the players make such a big fuss about sitting in the first class section of the plane. Does that mean they'll get there faster?
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My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.
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Pete (Rose) doesn't run with celebrities and he can't stand the phonies. His big buddy in LA ain't Sinatra, it's a funny old groundskeeper.
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I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.
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I cannot get rid of the hurt from losing, but after the last out of every loss, I must accept that there will be a tomorrow. In fact, it's more than there'll be a tomorrow, it's that I want there to be a tomorrow. That's the big difference, I want tomorrow to come.
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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.
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This game has taken a lot of guys over the years who would have had to work in factories and gas stations and made them prominent people. I only had a high school education, and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. There isn't a college in the world that would have me and yet in this business you can walk into a room with millionaires, doctors, professional people and get more attention than they get. I don't know any other business where you can do that.
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I've changed my mind about it (DH) - instead of being bad, it stinks.
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Good seasons start with good beginnings.
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The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.
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Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.
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If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.
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Sparky Anderson
- Born: February 22, 1934
- Died: November 4, 2010
- Occupation: Baseball Manager
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