Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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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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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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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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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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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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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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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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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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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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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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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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