My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.
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I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.
No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.
Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.
Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.
Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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.
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
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.