Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
CASEY STENGELThe only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
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I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don’t drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren’t speaking and I said I’ll take that drink.
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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 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 Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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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 was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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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 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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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 don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?
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