Chuck Tanner Quotes

• You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

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  Tags in Weather, Depend

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  What you have to remember is that baseball isn’t a week or a month but a season – and a season is a long time.

   

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  Tags in Season, Remember

• There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

  Chuck Tanner

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Important, Secret

• It’s hard to win a pennant, but it’s harder to lose one.

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  Tags in Hard, Lose

• If you don’t like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don’t like baseball.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball, Playing

• I don’t think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he’s been given.

  Chuck Tanner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Judged, Whether

• Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Diamond, Having

Chuck Tanner (7)

Birth:	4th July, 1928
Death:	11th February, 2011
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Manager, Baseball Player

About

Charles William "Chuck" Tanner was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania. He was an American left fielder and manager in Major League Baseball. He managed the Pittsburgh Pirates to a World Series championship in 1979. He last served as a senior adviser to Pirates general manager Neal Huntington. He played for eight seasons for four different teams: the Milwaukee Braves, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels. In 2007, the Rotary Club of Pittsburgh began the Chuck Tanner Baseball Manager of the Year Award.

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