If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short.
AL LOPEZWhen you’re a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.
More Al Lopez Quotes
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It adds a little action and gives the fans something to look at rather than the monotonous routine, no matter how perfectly the play is made.
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I’m delighted. I don’t know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It’s a great feeling.
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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.
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The youngsters coming up now just go through the motions necessary to make the play.
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The manager is by himself. He can’t mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players.
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But I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.
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When you’re a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.
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Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn’t hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.
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They should bounce around a little, show some life and zip.
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You’ll be an old man before you know it.
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Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field.
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