Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
CASEY STENGELSure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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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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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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 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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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 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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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