WIST

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.

Casey Stengel (1890-1975) American athlete, coach, manager [Charles Dillon Stengel]
(Attributed)

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel (1890-1975) American athlete, coach, manager [Charles Dillon Stengel]
(Attributed)

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

Casey Stengel (1890-1975) American athlete, coach, manager [Charles Dillon Stengel]
(Attributed)

Come see my “Amazin’ Mets.” Been in this game a hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ‘em I never knew existed before.

Casey Stengel (1890-1975) American athlete, coach, manager [Charles Dillon Stengel]
(Attributed, 1963)

Play every game … as if your job depended on it. It just might.

Casey Stengel (1890-1975) American athlete, coach, manager [Charles Dillon Stengel]
The Gospel According to C*A*S*E*Y, ch. 7 [ed. Berkow and Kaplan] (1992)