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.
CASEY STENGELI was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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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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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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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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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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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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 cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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