You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
CASEY STENGELYou got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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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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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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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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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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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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