If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
CASEY STENGELMost ball games are lost, not won.
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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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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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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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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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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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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