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If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

Casey Stengel

Baseball, Winning, Thinking

"Yogi Berra vs. Casey Stengel Quote War". Interview with Stan Silliman, bleacherreport.com. August 18, 2010.

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Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup.

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Looks, World, Jerry

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Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.

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Best Things

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The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

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Baseball, Mets

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Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.

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Yankees, Records, Ruth

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Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.

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Dust, Bats, Balls

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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

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Sports, Baseball, Running

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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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Sports, Thinking, Yankees

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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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Baseball, Balls, Catchers

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They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera.

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Baseball, Kids, Games

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What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?

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Men, Yankees, Use

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Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds.

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Sports, Gun, Guy

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If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.

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Yankees, Want, Being The Best

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He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

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New York, Team, Poverty

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Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

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Baseball, Drinking, Bars

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I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.

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Guy, Saws, All Time

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He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do.

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Winning, Years, League

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He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out.

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Fall, Brave, Ruth

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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

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Baseball, Winning, Twenties

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If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.

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Sports, Smart, Army

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That kid can hit balls over buildings.

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Baseball, Kids, Balls

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They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

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Funny, Work, Climbing

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The Mets are gonna be amazing.

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Baseball, Mets

Quoted in S.F. Examiner, 30 Sept. 1975

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You make your own luck. Some people have bad
luck all their lives.

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People, Luck, Bad Luck

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It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.

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Baseball, Running, Home

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