If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
CASEY STENGELYou can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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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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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.
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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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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 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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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