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.
CASEY STENGELIt’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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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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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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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 comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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