The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
CASEY STENGELManaging is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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 broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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If 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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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 key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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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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They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.
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