Casey Stengel Quotes

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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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Success, Sports, Baseball

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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

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Funny, Witty, Laughter

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See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.

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Stars, Yankees, Years

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The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.

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Baseball, Games, Mets

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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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Motivational, Birthday, Baseball

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Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

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Sometimes, Easier, Figures

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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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Baseball, Sex, Player

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You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

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Baseball, Men, Games

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Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

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Sports, Baseball, Rain

Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

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Sports, Teamwork, Player

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Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

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Yankees, People, Age

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They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.

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Done, Sometimes, Accomplish

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Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.

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Strong, Yankees, Hands

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Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.

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Baseball, Airplane, Boys

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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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Motivational, Business, Hate

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We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.

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Baseball, Cake, Birthday Cake

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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

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Sports, Baseball, Vices

Quoted in Paul Dickson, The Official Explanations (1980)

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All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.

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Needs, Analysis, Balls

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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

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Stars, Drinking, Winning

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I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.

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Baseball, Four, Broke

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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.

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Sports, Way, Mets

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

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Motivational, Growing Up, Inspiration

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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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Sports, Baseball, Hot

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Most ball games are lost, not won.

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Sports, Games, Lost Friendship

Quoted in Paul Dickson, Baseball's Greatest Quotations (1991)

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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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Sports, Mistake, Clubs

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Born: July 30, 1890
Died: September 29, 1975
Occupation: Baseball Manager
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