Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
CASEY STENGELNever make predictions, especially about the future.
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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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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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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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 trick is growing up without growing old.
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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 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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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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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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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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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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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