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

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Casey Stengel
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: July 30
Died: 1975
Died: September 29
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Kansas City
Missouri
Charles Dillon Casey Stengel
Broke
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Learn
Living
Three
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Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.
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If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.
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Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
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You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.
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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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If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed.
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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.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'.
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