Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Frank Lane (American Sportsperson)

Frank Lane (1895–1981,) fully Frank Charles Meyers Lane, was an American baseball executive who made a significant impact in Major League Baseball. Over more than two decades, he served as a general manager for various teams such as the Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics, and Milwaukee Brewers.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Lane’s deep-rooted passion for the game blossomed from an early age. His tenure as the General Manager of the Chicago White Sox began in 1948 when he swiftly gained a reputation as a dynamic and inventive executive. Known for his sharp trading skills and daring maneuvers, Lane earned monikers like “Trader Frank,” “Frantic Frank,” “Trader Lane,” and “The Wheeler Dealer.” His career was marked by an astonishing record of over 400 trades, including an impressive 241 trades during his time with the White Sox alone.

Lane’s expertise and strategic approach to deal-making allowed him to reshape rosters and orchestrate impactful trades. However, his assertive and sometimes confrontational personality led to occasional conflicts with players, coaches, and fellow executives.

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Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Home

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Morals, Morality

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Voting, Elections, Stupidity

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Ignorance

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Endurance, Difficulties, Resolve, Weather, Perseverance, Adversity

Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Winners, Oddity, Peculiarity, Winning

Remember when $25,000 was a success? Now it is a garbage collector.
—Frank Lane

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Time Management, Time, Lawyers

A man who calls bullshit fertilizer.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Optimism

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Conservatives

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Humor, Jokes

If the real estate gang could, they’d raise the rents in the graveyard.
—Frank Lane

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Sin

A liberal is man who will give away everything he doesn’t own.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Liberalism

Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Politics, Politicians

The way to a woman’s heart is through your wallet.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Love

The news of any politician’s death should be listed under “Public Improvements.”
—Frank Lane
Topics: Politics

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Business

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. On Washington D. C.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Cities, City Life

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Books, Reading

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Enemy, Enemies

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.
—Frank Lane
Topics: Greatness, Greatness & Great Things

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