Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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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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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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