I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
CASEY STENGELManaging is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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 broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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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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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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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 feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
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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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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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