I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
CASEY STENGELThere comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn’t argue with one. I’d put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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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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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.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.
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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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