Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
CASEY STENGELGood pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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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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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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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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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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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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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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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 team has come along slow but fast.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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