I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
CASEY STENGELYou gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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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 a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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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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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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.
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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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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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Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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