Without losers, where would the winners be?
CASEY STENGELI 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 feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
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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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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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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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 Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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 was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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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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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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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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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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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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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