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.
CASEY STENGELYou got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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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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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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