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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
Casey Stengel
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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
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What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?
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Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.
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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.
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Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
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I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.
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Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.
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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.
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I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.
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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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