I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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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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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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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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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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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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 was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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