The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
CASEY STENGELManaging is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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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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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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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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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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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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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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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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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 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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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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