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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.

Casey Stengel

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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
Charles Dillon Casey Stengel
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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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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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.
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You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
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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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Don't cut off your nose yourself.
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Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.
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