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.
CASEY STENGELThe trick is growing up without growing old.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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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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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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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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