You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
CASEY STENGELThe team has come along slow but fast.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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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 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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The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn’t argue with one. I’d put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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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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If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
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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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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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