Of course managers win ball games.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Bad ballplayers make good managers.
All the managers in the world are here to win games.
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
When you've been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you've played for, the good ones and the bad ones. Even the good ones get fired.
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.
A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.
We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way.
The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.
The players make the manager, it's never the other way.