Casey Stengel Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Casey Stengel Quotes and Sayings
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.
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Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
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Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.
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I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.
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If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
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If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.
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It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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Most games are lost, not won.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
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Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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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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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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The team has come along slow but fast.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
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The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
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The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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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There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
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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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They 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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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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.
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