You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
CASEY STENGELI got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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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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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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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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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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