If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
CASEY STENGELI was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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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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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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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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 got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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