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"When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me."
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"Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back, and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can, coaching and advising."
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"Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear."
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"I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament."
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"It's hard, or you wouldn't like it. A lot of coaches really don't like what they're doing."
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"We had a dialogue coach. She helped us with our T's."
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"If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach."
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"I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches."
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"Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing."
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"My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing."
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"When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me."
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"When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me."
Coach
"I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed."
Hope
"I had slumps that lasted into the winter."
Sports
"Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?"
Woman
"When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes."
Man
"I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly."
Entertainment
"Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist."
Abuse
"Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat."
People
"If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter."
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