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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
Casey StengelCasey Stengel I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
Casey StengelCasey Stengel You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
Casey StengelCasey Stengel You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
Casey StengelCasey Stengel The team has come along slow but fast.
Casey StengelCasey Stengel You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
Casey StengelCasey Stengel There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
Casey StengelCasey Stengel If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
Casey StengelCasey Stengel Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
Casey StengelCasey Stengel The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
Casey StengelCasey Stengel 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.
Casey StengelCasey Stengel 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.
Casey StengelCasey Stengel The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
Casey StengelCasey Stengel The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.
Casey StengelCasey Stengel Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Casey StengelCasey Stengel When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Casey StengelCasey Stengel
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