Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
CASEY STENGELThey 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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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 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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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The team has come along slow but fast.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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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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 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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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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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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