Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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 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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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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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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You gotta learn that if you don’t get it by midnight, chances are you ain’t gonna get it, and if you do, it ain’t worth it.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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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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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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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 got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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