If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
CASEY STENGELDon’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody 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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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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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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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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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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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