If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
CASEY STENGELManaging is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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You gotta learn that if you don’t get it by midnight, chances are you ain’t gonna get it, and if you do, it ain’t worth it.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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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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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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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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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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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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