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John McGraw

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My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.
- John McGraw
Collection: Nature
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There is but one game and that game is baseball.
- John McGraw
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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.
- John McGraw
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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.
- John McGraw
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I think we can win it if my brain holds out.
- John McGraw
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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.
- John McGraw
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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.
- John McGraw
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The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.
- John McGraw
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Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.
- John McGraw
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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.
- John McGraw
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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.
- John McGraw
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One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.
- John McGraw
Collection: Baseball
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One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.
- John McGraw
Collection: Wind
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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.
- John McGraw
Collection: Baseball
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The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.
- John McGraw
Collection: Past
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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.
- John McGraw
Collection: Sports
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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?
- John McGraw
Collection: Sports
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The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.
- John McGraw
Collection: Boys
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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.
- John McGraw
Collection: Baseball
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He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.
- John McGraw
Collection: Player
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The main idea is to win.
- John McGraw
Collection: Baseball
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The main thing is to win.
- John McGraw
Collection: Winning
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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.
- John McGraw
Collection: Summer

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