Quotes by Casey Stengel - Page 3

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Funny
Sports
Airplane
Alike
Weekends
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Leadership
Motivational
Business
Good Manager
Hate
Undecided
Good Hate Me
Being
Leadership Good Me
Away
Those
Still
Manager
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Sports
Ballparks
Feels
Honored
Thrown
Since
Ballpark
Named
Greatly
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Backwards
People
Walks
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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?
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Age
Sports
Born
Manage
Sitting
Thinking
Yankees
Sure
Played
Dugout
Guys
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Catchers
Screens
Way
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You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Fields
World
Yankees
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The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
All Night
Baseball
Player
Sex
Trouble
Players
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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Ball Games
Drink
Drinking
Games
Stars
Whiskey
Winning
Ball
They Say
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Hitting
Past
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If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Sports
Baseball
Better Off
Crazy
Owner
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The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Sports
Arms
Kissing
Trouble
Umpires
Argue
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I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit but can't do either.
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Chance
Sports
Midnight
Worth It
Chances
Gonna
Gotta
Learn
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Bigs
Thinking
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Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Baseball
One Day
Years
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Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Matter
Yankees
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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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Success
Sports
Baseball
Five
Four
Hate
Made
Secret
Successful
Away
Guys
Managing
Minds
The Secret Of
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
All Time
Guy
Saws
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I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Games
Mad
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Bidding
Museums
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Sleep
Yankees
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Analysis
Balls
Needs
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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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Brave
Fall
Ruth
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
All Night
Baseball
Baseball Player
Hurt
Player
Sex
Staying
Professional
Professional Baseball
Professional Baseball Player
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(Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Kids
Running
Roger
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Cities
League
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Being The Best
Want
Yankees
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Sports
Gun
Guy
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If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Bases
Hate
Bench
Stay
Early
Inning
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Broke
Four
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Broke
Impression
Seen
Days
Correct
Writers
Hits
Promptly
Took
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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Birthday
Motivational
Smile
Baseball
Coaching
Committed
Credit
Possessed
Begin
Younger
Blamed
Virtues
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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?
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Funny
Sports
Beautiful
Golf
Lovely
Yogi
Bank
Beautiful Home
Millionaires
Plays
They Say
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You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Men
Baseball
Games
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Arms
Awkward
Ears
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Balls
Bats
Dust
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I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Sports
Drink
Said
Fella
Joe
Speaking
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See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Stars
Yankees
Years
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Sports
Clubs
Mistake
Program
Youth
Advance
Club
Desired
Services
Seventy
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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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League
Winning
Years
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Running
Home
Baseball
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Home
Hands
Yankees
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Kids
Baseball
Games
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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.
Casey Stengel / Baseball Manager
Change
Blame
Focus
Frustration
Matter
Unhappiness
Waste
Time Focus Your
Looking
Thing
Another
Much
Only
Does
Find
How
Explain
Fault
Off
Him
How Much
Reasons
Regardless
The Only Thing
Waste Of Time
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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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Hands
Strong
Yankees
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