Most ball games are lost, not won.
CASEY STENGELI was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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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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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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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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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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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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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 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 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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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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