Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
CASEY STENGELThe team has come along slow but fast.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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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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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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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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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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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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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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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 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’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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 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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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 broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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