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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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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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I couldn't have done it without my players.
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My health is good enough about the shoulders.
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I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.
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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.
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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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Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.
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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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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
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What do you think, I was born at 60?
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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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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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You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
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Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.
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Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.
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