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

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Casey Stengel
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: July 30
Died: 1975
Died: September 29
Baseball Manager
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Kansas City
Missouri
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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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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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You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.
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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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He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.
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I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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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Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
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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.
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A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.
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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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There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
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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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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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Even my players aren't players.
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