The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds.
CASEY STENGELI was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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You gotta learn that if you don’t get it by midnight, chances are you ain’t gonna get it, and if you do, it ain’t worth it.
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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
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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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The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.
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