I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
CASEY STENGELSure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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 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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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 key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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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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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.
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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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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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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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