Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
CASEY STENGELI don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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 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 Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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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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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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