Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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 know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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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.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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 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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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