No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
CASEY STENGELAll right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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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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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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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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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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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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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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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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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 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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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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