Casey Stengel Quotes - Page 2

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• The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.

  Casey Stengel

  Thinking, Trying, Approval

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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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• 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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• Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck?

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  Yankees, Defense, Pardon Me

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• I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

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  Baseball, Mlb, Practice

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• You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

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  Money, Three, Broke

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• Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

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  Yankees, Cities, Kansas City

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• It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

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  Friends, Sports, Wonderful

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• Most ball games are lost, not won.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Games, Lost Friendship

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

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• Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.

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  Baseball, Sleep, Yankees

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• 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.

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  Sports, Midnight, Chance

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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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• 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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• Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.

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  Motivational, Sports, Jobs

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• We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.

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  Yankees, Play, New York Yankees

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.

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  Baseball, Son, Water

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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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  Sports, Ballparks, Feels

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• I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

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  Sports, Successful, Player

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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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• I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.

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  Awkward, Ears, Arms

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