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Casey Stengel [1890-1975] American

Rank: 101
Athlete, Baseball Manager

Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel, nicknamed "The Old Perfessor", was an American Major League Baseball right fielder and manager. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.

Sports, Age, Chance, Failure, Funny, Future, Good, Home, Leadership, Money, Time, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.	Good, Sports	101
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.	Funny	102
Most ball games are lost, not won.	Sports	103
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.		104
You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.	Failure, Time	105
It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.		106
The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.	Women	107
Never make predictions, especially about the future.	Future	108
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.		109
The team has come along slow but fast.	Sports	110
There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.		111
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.		112
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.	Leadership	113
Without losers, where would the winners be?		114
The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.		115
You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.		116
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.		117
The trick is growing up without growing old.	Age	118
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.		119
You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.	Money	120
I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.		121
The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.		122
Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.		123
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.		124
Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.	Home	125
You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.	Chance	126
If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.		201
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?		202
I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.		203
Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.		204
I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.		205
If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.		206
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.		207
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.		208
Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.		209
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.		210
You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.		211
They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?		212
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.		213
Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.		214
The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.		215
I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.		216
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.		217
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.		218
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.		219
I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.		220
You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.		221
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.		222
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.		223
If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.		224
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.		225
I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.		226
Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.		301
I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.		302

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