Casey Stengel citations

Charles Dillon « Casey » Stengel fut un populaire joueur de baseball ainsi qu'un manager avec les Yankees de New York. Il reçut le surnom « Casey » de Kansas City, Missouri, où il est né. Dans ces jeunes années, il était aussi connu comme « Dutch », un surnom populaire à l'époque pour les Américains de descendance allemande.

Il est le seul joueur de l'histoire à avoir porté l'uniforme des quatre clubs de baseball majeur new-yorkais, à savoir les Dodgers de Brooklyn, les Giants de New York, les Yankees de New York et les Mets de New York. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. juillet 1890 – 29. septembre 1975
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Casey Stengel: Citations en anglais

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

As quoted in Can't Anybody here Play This Game? (1963) by Jimmy Breslin; reproduced in "Rocene's Sport Jabs" by Ray Rocene, in The Missoulian (April 21, 1963), p. 11

“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.”

As quoted in "L. M. Boyd" http://www.mediafire.com/view/ulp201hdoc2hs32/Screen%20Shot%202017-12-10%20at%203.10.58%20PM.png by Boyd, in The Sioux City Journal (April 20, 1981), p. A17

“The key to good management is keeping the nine guys who hate your guts away from the nine guys who haven't made up their minds.”

Common Ground News http://www.commongroundnews.org/article.php?id=2316&lan=en&sid=1&sp=0

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

On Busch Memorial Stadium, site of the 1966 MLB All-Star Game; as quoted in "Frank Doesn't Miss NL Pitching" by Neal Russo, in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (July 13, 1966), p. 4C

“Without losers, where would the winners be?”

The Gospel According to Casey (1992), ed. Berkow & Kaplan, St. Martin's Press, p. 19 : ISBN 0312069227</small> , as cited in The Executive's Book of Quotations (1994), ed. Martin & Moskin, Oxford University Press, p. 299 : <small>ISBN 0195078365

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

Speaking on August 31, 1956 at Griffith Stadium, in response to pitcher Whitey Ford's assurance that he could indeed retire Jim Lemon, who had homered off Ford in each of his previous three at-bats; as quoted in The Greatest Team of All Timeː As Selected by Baseball's Immortals, From Ty Cobb to Willie Mays (1994) by Nicholas Acocella and Donald Dewey, p. 113

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