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You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.
You make your own luck. Some people have bad luck all their lives.
It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.
Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.
I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.
We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.
Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.
Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.
Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.
Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out
He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.
You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.
We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'.
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.
Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad.
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.
Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup.
Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.
If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.
The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.
Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.
You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.
He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.
Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.
Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old
Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck?