No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
CASEY STENGELWhen 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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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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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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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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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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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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