Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
CASEY STENGELThe only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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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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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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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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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.
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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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