If I’ve got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.
CASEY STENGELManaging is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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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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The team has come along slow but fast.
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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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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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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.
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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 don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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