No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
CASEY STENGELThere are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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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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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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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 feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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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