I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
CASEY STENGELThe 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.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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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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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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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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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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