22+ John McGraw Quotes On Education, Slavery And Legendary

Top 10 John McGraw Quotes

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   Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

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   There is but one game and that game is baseball.

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   With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

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   Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.

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   Cobb would have to play center field on my all time team. But where would that put Speaker? In left. If I had them both, I would certainly play them that way.

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   I think we can win it if my brain holds out.

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   In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

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   My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

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    Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

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    The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.

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John McGraw Short Quotes

• Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

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• The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

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• The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.

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• One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

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John McGraw Quotes About Wins

• No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.

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• The main idea is to win.

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• The main thing is to win.

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John McGraw Famous Quotes And Sayings

• I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.

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• (Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know.

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• If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.

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• He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.

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• You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

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