I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
CASEY STENGELI got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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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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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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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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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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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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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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The team has come along slow but fast.
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