Casey Stengel
Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel was a professional baseball player and manager who was one of baseball's more colourful personalities.
Found 60 thoughts of Casey Stengel
I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit. This is the greatest ball club a man could manage.
Casey Stengel
Good pitching will stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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How the hell should I know? Most of the people my age are dead. You could look it up.
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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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Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ballplayer. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.
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You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
Casey Stengel
Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the line up.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.
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The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.
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I don't know if he throws a spit ball, but he sure spits on the ball.
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I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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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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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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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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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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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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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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People ask me, 'Casey, how can you speak so much when you don't talk English too good?' Well, I've been invited to Europe, and I say, 'They don't speak English over there too good, either.'
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There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
Casey Stengel
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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