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.
CASEY STENGELNo baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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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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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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 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 such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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