I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
CASEY STENGELYou got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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The team has come along slow but fast.
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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
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You gotta learn that if you don’t get it by midnight, chances are you ain’t gonna get it, and if you do, it ain’t worth it.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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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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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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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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 broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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