Walt Alston Quotes

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"Do you best and forget the consequences." - Walt Alston
Walt Alston Quotes

Quotes From & About Walt Alston

Quotes From Walt Alston

"Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium." Source: Los Angeles Times (May 7, 1976)

"I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too." Source: Los Angeles Times (May 7, 1976)

"I'm happy for him (Gil Hodges). That is, if you think becoming a big league manager is a good thing to have happen to you." Source: Catcher in the Wry (Bob Uecker)

"Individual grievances and pet peeves have got to go by the wayside. Generally, you don't have to worry about the guys who are playing every day, it's the guys who are sitting on the bench that are the ones that get needles in their pants."

"It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers."

"Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences."

"More than anyone else, he's (Hank Aaron) made me wish I wasn't a manager."

"Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat." Source: Los Angeles Herald-Examiner (February 27, 1975)

Quotes About Walt Alston

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Walt Alston managed the Dodgers franchise during their move from Brooklyn west to Los Angeles.

Did you know that Walt Alston has won more games than almost any other manager in Major League history?

Walt Alston is one of only a handful of managers ever inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.