Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
CASEY STENGELIf 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.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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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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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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 got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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