You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
CASEY STENGELAll 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.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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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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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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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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 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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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