The great baseball manager Sparky Anderson, who died Thursday (Nov. 4) at age 76, was a throwback, even when he began managing in 1970.
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Captain Hook
Rest In Peace, Sparky.
"Don't let yourself get beat by Superman."
"The players make the manager - it's never the other way around."
"I've changed my mind about the DH - instead of being bad, it stinks."
"If you have to choose between power and speed - and it often turns out you have to make that choice - you've got to go for speed."
"People who live in the past generally can't compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it."
"This game has taken a lot of guys over the years who would have had to work in factories and gas stations and made them prominent people. I only had a high school education, and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. There isn't a college in the world that would have me and yet in this business you can walk into a room with millionaires, doctors, professional people and get more attention than they get. I don't know any other business where you can do that."
And my personal favorite...
"I can't believe they pay us to do this."Comment