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Don't cut off your nose yourself.

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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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Noses
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The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
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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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They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.
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What do you think, I was born at 60?
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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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That kid can hit balls over buildings.
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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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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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All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.
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The Mets has come along slow, but fast!
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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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