Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
CASEY STENGELYou 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.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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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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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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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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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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