Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
CASEY STENGELYou have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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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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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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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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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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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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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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