I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
CASEY STENGELSon, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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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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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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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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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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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