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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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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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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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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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 broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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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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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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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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 got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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