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.
CASEY STENGELYou 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.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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 trick is growing up without growing old.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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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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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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