The trick is growing up without growing old.
CASEY STENGELMost ball games are lost, not won.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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 can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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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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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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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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