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.
CASEY STENGELAbility is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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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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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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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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn’t argue with one. I’d put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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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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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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