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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
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You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
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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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Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck?
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Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.
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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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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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Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
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We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.
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We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!
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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.
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A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.
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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.
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All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.
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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.
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Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.
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We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.
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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.
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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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You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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