John McGraw Quotations

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.

I think we can win it if my brain holds out.

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.

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.

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.