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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Now there's three things that can happen in a ballgame: you can win, you can lose, or it can rain.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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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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That game was so famous they never used me.
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Look at him. He doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, he doesn't chew and he doesn't stay out late - and he still can't hit.
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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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The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.
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If you hit a home run you can take your time running the bases.
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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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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.
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I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I got $2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ...I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit.
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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.