Sparky Quotes

You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it. - Sparky Anderson

You're always happy when you can get a Triple-A or big-league pitcher because most, as a whole, know what they are doing. Finding a way to win a game or go five innings when you don't have your best stuff is what pitching is all about. - Sparky Lyle

You'd think he knew everybody. He made everybody feel like somebody. - Sparky Anderson

You will never see any better [catch] than that one. At least, I don't think I will. - Sparky Anderson

You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun. - Sparky Anderson

Why not give that guy a shot? He and Bobby are the only two that could. - Sparky Anderson

When you sign some new guys, you are selling them on the league. Joe Klein has been very good about it. Sometimes he has apologized, and sometimes he has said deal with it. Moaning about it just made everyone else think bad about it. - Sparky Lyle

When we were up 6-1, the game was not over. Not versus that club. Not by any means. - Sparky Lyle

When George found out about it, it was church. - Sparky Lyle

We're the best team in baseball, but not by much. - Sparky Anderson