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.
CASEY STENGELFinding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.
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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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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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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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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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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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