Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
CASEY STENGELYou can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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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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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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 was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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 Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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