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.
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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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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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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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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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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 don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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