"Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him — with kindness or roughness as his case may demand." John McGraw
"In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game. The men who loses gracefully, loses easily. Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but once a team of mine is on the diamond, I want it to fight. Namby-pamby methods don't get much in results." - John McGraw in The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball (Frank DeFord, Grove Press Publishing, 03/02/2006, Page 51)
The manager of the New York Giants, Little Napolean was his nickname, a player from 1891-1906 and manager from 1899 to 1932.
His approach, would it work today?
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