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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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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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You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.
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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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We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.
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I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.
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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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Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.
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I couldn't have done it without my players.
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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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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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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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They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.
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We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'.
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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
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We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.
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They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.
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You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
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He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out.
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There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
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