Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
CASEY STENGELEverybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?
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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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If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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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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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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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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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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