Casey Stengel Quotes - Page 3

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If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going.

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People, Walks, Backwards

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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

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Funny, Sports, Airplane

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You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

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Sports, Loss, Ems

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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

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Running, Home, Yankees

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They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

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Success, Wisdom, Work Out

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Don't cut off your nose yourself.

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Cutting, Noses, Spite

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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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Baseball, Hurt, Sex

"L. M. Boyd" by Boyd, "The Sioux City Journal", p. A17, April 20, 1981.

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Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.

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Humorous, Order, Profound

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Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old

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School, Years, Guy

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It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

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Teamwork, Player, Team Building

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The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

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Baseball, Hurt, Luck

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They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.

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Baseball, Museums, Bidding

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I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

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Signing, Signing Autographs, Slips

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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

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Motivational, Teamwork, Baseball

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You could look it up.

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Looks

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Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.

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Motivational, Sports, Cutting

Quoted in Joseph Durso, Casey: The Life and Legend of Charles Dillon Stengel (1967)

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I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

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Mistake, Yankees, New York Yankees

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.

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Baseball, Cities, League

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They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

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Funny, Beautiful, Sports

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He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.

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Fall, Gold, Watches

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I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

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Baseball, Past, Hitting

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There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.

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Home, Yankees, Hands

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A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.

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People, Age, Looks

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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

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Sports, Baseball, Two

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