No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
CASEY STENGELGood pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I’ll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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