You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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The team has come along slow but fast.
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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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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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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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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 feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
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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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