Don Zimmer
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"As Player"

* Los Angeles Dodgers/Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers (–)

* Chicago Cubs (–)

* New York Mets

* Cincinnati Reds

* Los Angeles Dodgers

* Texas Rangers (baseball)/Washington Senators (–)

* Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters/Toei Flyers (Nippon Professional Baseball/NPB)

"As Manager"

* San Diego Padres (–)

* Boston Red Sox (–)

* Texas Rangers (baseball)/Texas Rangers (–)

* Chicago Cubs (–)

"As Coach"

* Montreal Expos

* San Diego Padres

* Boston Red Sox (–)

* New York Yankees

* Chicago Cubs (–)

* New York Yankees

* San Francisco Giants

* Boston Red Sox

* Colorado Rockies (–)

* New York Yankees (–)

* Tampa Bay Rays/Tampa Bay Devil Rays/Rays (–)

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* 2× Major League Baseball All-Star Game/All-Star (1961 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (first game)/1961, 1961 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (second game)/1961²)

* 6× World Series champion (, , , –)

* Major League Baseball Manager of the Year Award#National League/NL Manager of the Year (1989)

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We ask each other about it in the coach's room every day. What do you think is going to happen? Nobody knows anything. All I know is Lou's got a contract for next year, and all the coaches have contracts, too.

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I don't think so. I have a good job. I'm getting up in years. I don't want to manage. That's out of the question. Nobody has to ask to me. That's the way it is.

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He could have been an engineer and he would have been a great one, but he decided to be a catcher and he was a good one. Then he decided to be a bench coach and he was a good one. Now he is going to be a manager and he is going to be a good one.

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I don't want to go anywhere but here. They've treated me well. I don't know how anybody could be treated any better. This is where I want to be, and I'm not going anyplace.

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It just as easily could have gone the other way.

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It's like seeing a $3,000 racehorse running against a $1-million horse. You always think the million-dollar horse is going to win, right? That's baseball.

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A lot of companies are calling for availability, but we're committed to FEMA.

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We had a good time.

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When Yogi hit the ball down the left-field line, with Amoros' speed and being a left-handed thrower -- a right-handed thrower probably couldn't have caught the ball. I always kid around with people. I say, 'I was very important in that seventh game.' You don't win many games by being taken out of the game.

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