I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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 don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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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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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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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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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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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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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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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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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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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