Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
CASEY STENGELYou gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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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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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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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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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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