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Casey Stengel Quotes

1890–1975 United States

Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel (30 July 1890 – 29 September 1975) was an American baseball player and manager from the early 1910s into the 1960s. In the 1950s, sportswriters dubbed him with yet another nickname, "The Old Perfessor", for his sharp wit and his ability to talk at length on anything baseball-related.

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Random Casey Stengel quote

8 quotes

There comes a time at least once in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.

This makes a man think. You look up and down the bench and you say to yourself, "Can't anybody here play this game?"

Can't Anybody here Play This Game? (1963)

Maybe, but I don't have another life to live to wait around for it.

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.

Without losers, where would the winners be?

The Gospel According to Casey (1992)

I guess this means they fired me. I'll never make the mistake of being 70 years old again.

The new park sure holds the heat. The heat took the press right out of my pants.

Now the secret to successful managing is to break down your club. The first 15 guys you don't have to bother with. They are always playing and don't need the manager. The next five play only occasionally, so you got to keep buttering them up. The last five you gotta watch all the time because they're plotting to get you fired.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Casey Stengel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.