I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
CASEY STENGELNo baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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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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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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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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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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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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 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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The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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