Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
CASEY STENGELI was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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 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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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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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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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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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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All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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