Casey Stengel
Casey Stengel
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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth30 July 1890
CityKansas City, MO
CountryUnited States of America
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I stayed up last night and watched the Republican Convention all night long. I watched all of them talk, and listened to them and seen them and I'm not interested in politics. If you watch them and listen to them you can find out why.
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The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.
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People ask me, 'Casey, how can you speak so much when you don't talk English too good?' Well, I've been invited to Europe, and I say, 'They don't speak English over there too good, either.'
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They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
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This is the greatest ball club a man could manage.
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That game was so famous they never used me.
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Ain't that something what happened today. One of us got traded to Kansas City.
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A shave, please, but don't cut my throat. I may want to do it later myself.
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I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
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I don't know if he throws a spit ball, but he sure spits on the ball.
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I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit. This is the greatest ball club a man could manage.
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They've shown me ways to lose I never knew existed.
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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part
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They are very brave men, the way they talk right up. Now if it was me, I would double-talk.