Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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 Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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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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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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