If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
CASEY STENGELTwo hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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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 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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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