I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
CASEY STENGELThe 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.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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 key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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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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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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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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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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 have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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