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.'
You got to get 27 outs to win.
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice.
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Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
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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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We was going to get you a cake, but we figured you'd drop it.
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But the only things that interrupted our happy family life came out there on the field, injuries and accidents and sickness, as the boys gave it all they had.
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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.
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They've shown me ways to lose I never knew existed.