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 STENGELYou have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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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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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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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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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