If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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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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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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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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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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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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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 don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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