Casey Stengel Quotes

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Casey Stengel

Profession : Baseball Player

Birth : July 30, 1890

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

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

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

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All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.

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

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There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.

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Without losers, where would the winners be?

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

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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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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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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.

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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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Never make predictions, especially about the future.

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

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I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.

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