Most ball games are lost, not won.
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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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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The team has come along slow but fast.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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 don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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