I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
CASEY STENGELI 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.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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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’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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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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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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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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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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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