You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
CASEY STENGELNever make predictions, especially about the future.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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The team has come along slow but fast.
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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 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 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 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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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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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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