Without losers, where would the winners be?
CASEY STENGELYou have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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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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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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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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