You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
CASEY STENGELThere comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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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 Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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They 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.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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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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If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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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