Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
CASEY STENGELNever make predictions, especially about the future.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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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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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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 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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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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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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