Casey Stengel Quotes
"It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Friends)
"Most ball games are lost, not won."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Games)
"All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Right)
"I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Successful, Skill)
"If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Thinking)
"If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Baseball, Being, Thinking)
"If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Army)
"I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many."
- Casey Stengel
"I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three."
- Casey Stengel
"I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Practice)
"I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball."
- Casey Stengel
"Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Play)
"I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Midnight)
"Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Art, Home, Ability, Credit)
"Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Drinking)
"Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Years)
"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."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Baseball, Being, Hurt, Night, Woman)
"Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: May, Want)
"I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink."
- Casey Stengel
"Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Vice, Will)
"Most games are lost, not won."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Games)
"The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Day)
"Never make predictions, especially about the future."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Future)
"No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Baseball, Worth)
"Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Baseball, Now, Rain)
"Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Successful)
"Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Son)
"Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?"
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Age, Trying)
"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Manager, People, Being, Hate, Key)
"The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed."
- Casey Stengel
"The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Successful, Hate)
"The team has come along slow but fast."
- Casey Stengel
"The trick is growing up without growing old."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Growing up, Old)
"You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Living)
"The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Women, Kiss, Trouble)
"You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Time, Right)
"There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Baseball, Rain)
"There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Time, Life, Man)
"They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Games, Stars)
"They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?"
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Funny, Money, Family, Home, Wife, Golf)
"They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Mistake, Being, Youth)
"Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Americans)
"When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Credit)
"Without losers, where would the winners be?"
- Casey Stengel
"You got to get twenty-seven outs to win."
- Casey Stengel
"You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Midnight, Worth)
"You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls."
- Casey Stengel
"The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Sex, Night, Trouble)