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 STENGELIf you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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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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