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.
CASEY STENGELIt’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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 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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The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds.
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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.
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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 gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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