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 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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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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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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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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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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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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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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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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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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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