Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
CASEY STENGELThe trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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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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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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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I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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