The trick is growing up without growing old.
CASEY STENGELOldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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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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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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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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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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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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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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If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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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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