Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
CASEY STENGELAll blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.
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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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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.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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If I’ve got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.
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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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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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