Never make predictions, especially about the future.
CASEY STENGELThere are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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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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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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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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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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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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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If I’ve got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.
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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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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 Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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