No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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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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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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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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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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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