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 STENGELThey 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 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 trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.
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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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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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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