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