You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
CASEY STENGELNever make predictions, especially about the future.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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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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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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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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 broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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 such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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