You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
CASEY STENGELI got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
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