I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
CASEY STENGELDon’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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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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 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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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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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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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