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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

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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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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.
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They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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I couldn't have done it without my players.
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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.
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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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Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.
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Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch.
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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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Don't cut your nose off yourself.
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Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
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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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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.
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You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
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