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"I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."

"You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told."

"One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population."
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"Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching."

"Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players."

"The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game."

"The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit."

"A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me."

"A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December."
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