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 STENGELThey 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.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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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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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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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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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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