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.
CASEY STENGELIf 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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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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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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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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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I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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