Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
CASEY STENGELManaging is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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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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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