I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
CASEY STENGELThey 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.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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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 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 have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
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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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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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