I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
CASEY STENGELThe team has come along slow but fast.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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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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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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The team has come along slow but fast.
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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 feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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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 a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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