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.
—Sparky Anderson
Topics: Speed
If a team is in a positive frame of mind, it will have a good attitude. If it has a good attitude, it will make a commitment to playing the game right. If it plays the game right, it will win—unless, of course, it doesn’t have enough talent to win, and no manager can make goose-liver pate out of goose feathers, so why worry?
—Sparky Anderson
Topics: Worry
The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there’s nothing more to give.
—Sparky Anderson
Topics: Charity, Giving
You’re gonna lose some ball games and you’re gonna win some ball games and that’s about it.
—Sparky Anderson
Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.
—Sparky Anderson
Topics: Success, Success & Failure
People who live in the past generally are afraid to 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.
—Sparky Anderson
Topics: Future
Players have two things to do: Play and keep their mouths shut.
—Sparky Anderson
Topics: Simplicity
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