Quotes from John McGraw

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

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

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

My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

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.

The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.

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.

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

Cobb would have to play center field on my all time team. But where would that put Speaker? In left. If I had them both, I would certainly play them that way.

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

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

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

There is but one game and that game is baseball.