I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
CASEY STENGELBeen in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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The team has come along slow but fast.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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 got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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They 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 can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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