Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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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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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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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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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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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If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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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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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
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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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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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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 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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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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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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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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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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