Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
CASEY STENGELSon, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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 cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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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 can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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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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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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