Casey Stengel Quotes & Sayings

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three. — Casey Stengel

I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three. — Casey Stengel

You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane. — Casey Stengel

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls. — Casey Stengel

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before. — Casey Stengel

Don't cut off your nose yourself. — Casey Stengel

If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees. — Casey Stengel

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many. — Casey Stengel

We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays. — Casey Stengel

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill. — Casey Stengel

Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to. — Casey Stengel

Don't cut your nose off yourself. — Casey Stengel

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. — Casey Stengel

I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave. — Casey Stengel

After a deplorable day afield, when asked by a reporter what he thought of his team's execution — Casey Stengel

Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one. — Casey Stengel

My health is good enough about the shoulders. — Casey Stengel

The Mets has come along slow, but fast! — Casey Stengel

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out — Casey Stengel

The Mets are gonna be amazing. — Casey Stengel

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.' — Casey Stengel

If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred. — Casey Stengel

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

What do you think, I was born at 60? — Casey Stengel

Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant. — Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like. — Casey Stengel

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

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. — Casey Stengel

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up. — Casey Stengel

You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen. — Casey Stengel

I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me. — Casey Stengel

Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side. — Casey Stengel

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work. — Casey Stengel

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice. — Casey Stengel

It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part. — Casey Stengel

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful. — Casey Stengel

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two. — Casey Stengel

I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear. — Casey Stengel

I never saw a player who had greater promise. — Casey Stengel

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

He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do. — Casey Stengel

Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin. — Casey Stengel

That kid can hit balls over buildings. — Casey Stengel

What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute? — Casey Stengel

The trick is growing up without growing old. — Casey Stengel

Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height. — Casey Stengel

It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living. — Casey Stengel

We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings! — Casey Stengel

Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds. — Casey Stengel

Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey ... in the upper deck or the lower deck? — Casey Stengel

I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again. — Casey Stengel

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

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire. — Casey Stengel

Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old — Casey Stengel

Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball. — Casey Stengel

Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City. — 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

He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it. — Casey Stengel

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English. — Casey Stengel

If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going. — Casey Stengel

You could look it up. — Casey Stengel

Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup. — Casey Stengel

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

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right. — Casey Stengel

They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them. — Casey Stengel

Without losers, where would the winners be? — Casey Stengel

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

If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed. — Casey Stengel

You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them. — Casey Stengel

He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out. — Casey Stengel

All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field. — Casey Stengel

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part. — Casey Stengel

(Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases ... — Casey Stengel

See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30. — Casey Stengel

I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon. — Casey Stengel

There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand. — Casey Stengel

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em. — Casey Stengel

I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing. — Casey Stengel

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa. — Casey Stengel

They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera. — 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

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense. — Casey Stengel

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager ... my response? Great players. — Casey Stengel

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. — Casey Stengel

Wake up muscles we're in New York now. — Casey Stengel

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

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else. — Casey Stengel

I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball. — Casey Stengel

Most games are lost, not won. — Casey Stengel

You make your own luck. Some people have bad
luck all their lives. — 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

I couldn't have done it without my players. — Casey Stengel

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height. — Casey Stengel

All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head. — Casey Stengel

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers). — Casey Stengel

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off. — Casey Stengel

We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it. — Casey Stengel

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

Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing. — Casey Stengel

If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army. — Casey Stengel