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 LOPEZManaging 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.
More Al Lopez Quotes
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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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They should bounce around a little, show some life and zip.
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When you’re a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn’t hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.
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The youngsters coming up now just go through the motions necessary to make the play.
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