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.
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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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?
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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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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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 with women umpires is that I couldn’t argue with one. I’d put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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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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.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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