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 STENGELIf we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
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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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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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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If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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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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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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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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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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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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