Casey Stengel Quotes

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

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Funny, Witty, Laughter

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.

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Future, Predictions

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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.

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Motivational, Growing Up, Inspiration

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We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

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Sports, Balls, Clubs

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I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

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Mind, Way, Made

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Without losers, where would the winners be?

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Sports, Sunset, Loser

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

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I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.

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Player, Great Men, Response

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You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.

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Way, Catchers, Screens

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There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.

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Funny, Life, Sports

Quoted in Wash. Post, 6 May 1981. This quotation marks Stengel's grave.

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If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed.

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Yankees, Needs, Rooms

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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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Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.

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Baseball, Son, Winning

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