Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
CASEY STENGELNo baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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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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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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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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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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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
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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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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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