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.
CASEY STENGELNo baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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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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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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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
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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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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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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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