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 STENGELMost ball games are lost, not won.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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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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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
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