Casey Stengel quotes - page 3

The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you. (Casey Stengel)
We was going to get you a cake, but we figured you'd drop it.
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Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.
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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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The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.
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Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old.
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It ain't the water cooler that's getting you out.
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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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They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera.
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They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.
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Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one. (Casey Stengel)
It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.
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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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My health is good enough about the shoulders.
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Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it thirty-six years and I'm used to it.
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This makes a man think. You look up and down the bench and you say to yourself, "Can't anybody here play this game?"
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It's a good likeness of The Dutchman. It's perfect the way they have him holding a bat in his big hands. He was good with the bat but he was a terror with that glove, too. And my, how he could run the bases. Come to think of it, he was as good a ball player as I ever saw. Maybe the best. John McGraw always said Wagner was the greatest and I'm inclined to agree with him. He was certainly the best I ever played against. Wagner was a huge man with huge hands. He could cover ground and he could throw. Amazing thing about him was his arm. It was only as good as the runner. If you were an average runner, he'd just beat you with his throw. And if you were fast, he'd just beat you again.
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The new park sure holds the heat. The heat took the press right out of my pants.
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I've been talking only of some of the things Wagner did in the field. But he was a terror with that bat. The only other right-handed batter I could compare him with was Rogers Hornsby. Wagner could hit line drives into right field all day long. And when you started to shade him toward right field, he'd flip that bat, fake the third baseman into a bunt and hit it past him. And how he could run, too, even with his bowlegs. Honus had as much baseball instinct as I ever saw in a player. It was an education to play against him and a delight to watch him.
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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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Maybe, but I don't have another life to live to wait around for it. (Casey Stengel)
Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the line up.
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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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Johnny Sain doesn'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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There ain't nothin' to it. You go into the fancy meeting room and you just sit there and never open your yap. As long as you don't say nuthin' they don't know whether you're smart or dumb. When the question of a loan comes up, if it's a friend of yours, you vote to give it to him and if he ain't a friend, you don't.
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