If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
CASEY STENGELThere 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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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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 don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
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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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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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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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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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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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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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All 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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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
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