There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
CASEY STENGELThe key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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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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