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Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.


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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.



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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.



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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.



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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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See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.



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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.



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He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.



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Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.





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