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 STENGELI 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.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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 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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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 team has come along slow but fast.
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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 don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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You gotta learn that if you don’t get it by midnight, chances are you ain’t gonna get it, and if you do, it ain’t worth it.
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