Quotes by Warren Giles

About Warren Giles:

Warren Crandall Giles was an American professional baseball executive. He spent 33 years in high-level posts in Major League Baseball, as club president and general manager of the Cincinnati Reds (1937–51) and president of the National League (1951–69), and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.

Warren Giles

You must prune dead or dying wood.

Warren Giles

My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.

Warren Giles

People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of it off.

Warren Giles

I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

Warren Giles

A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there...

Warren Giles

People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.

Warren Giles

Author Bio

  • NameWarren Giles
  • DescriptionAmerican baseball executive
  • BornMay 28, 1896
  • DiedFebruary 7, 1979
  • ProfessionBaseball Player