Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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When 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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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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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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 can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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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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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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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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