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They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

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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
Funny
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Work
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Mountaineering
Climbs
Climbing

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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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My health is good enough about the shoulders.
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The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
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What do you think, I was born at 60?
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I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.
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All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.
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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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I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.
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I couldn't have done it without my players.
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I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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 could look it up.
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Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.
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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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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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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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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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Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?
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