Casey at the Bat: The Story of My Life...
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“He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.”
“What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?”
“Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.”
“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.”
“Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.”
“I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.”
“The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.”
“Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.”
Source: Casey at the Bat: The Story of My Life in Baseball
“Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad.”
“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.”
“He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).”
“If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.”
“We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!”
“You make your own luck. Some people have bad luck all their lives.”