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

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

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

- Earl Weaver

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

- Earl Weaver

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

- 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

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

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

- Earl Weaver

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

- Earl Weaver