If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
CASEY STENGELI feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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 team has come along slow but fast.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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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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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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