You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
CASEY STENGELThe Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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 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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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
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