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

I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius. — Warren Spahn

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

Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off. — Thomas Boswell

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

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

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner. — Casey Stengel

The government's assertion that it must be unhindered in protecting our security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the press's cry of the public's right to know can mask a quest for competitive advantage or a hidden animus. Neither the need to protect our security nor the public's right to know is a blank check. — Richard Stengel

The traditional model we all grew up with is obsolete. — Jim Stengel

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people. — Richard Stengel

Most ball games are lost, not won. — Casey Stengel

Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out. — Casey Stengel

A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up. — Casey Stengel

I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit but can't do either. — Casey Stengel

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp. — Casey Stengel

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

Stengel admitted. "I'm not going to make any decision until I have to give the umpire my batting order. Then you'll know as well as I." The next afternoon, Casey resisted — Andrew O'Toole

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

Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch. — 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

My health is good enough about the shoulders. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What we really need is a mindset shift that will make us relevant to todays consumers, a mindset shift from telling to selling to building relationships. — Jim Stengel

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

He (Mickey Mantle) has it in his body to be great. — Casey Stengel

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

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

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. — Casey Stengel

Do you realize how good you have to be to strike out 2000 times? — Casey Stengel

Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad. — 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

He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play. — Mickey Mantle

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

Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture. — Casey Stengel

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off. — 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 couldn't have done it without my players. — Casey Stengel

It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now. — Bob Costas

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

We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'. — 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

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

You could look it up. — 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

The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader. — Casey Stengel

Although we had no hope of defeating the enemy in the battlefield, nevertheless, we fought back to keep the idea of liberation alive. From a conversation with Richard Stengel, January 13, 1993 — Nelson Mandela

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

I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets? — Sparky Anderson

The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you. — 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

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

When Casey Stengel was putting his mark on all four New York baseball teams, he came off as many things. I have to admit I never thought of him as anybody's uncle. — George Vecsey

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

We are an industry that has historically been at the forefront of defining new media environments in ways that benefit consumers and move our entire business model forward. We must ensure that while we are moving quickly, we are also moving smartly. — Jim Stengel

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

Consumers today are less responsive to traditional media. They are embracing new technologies that empower them with more control over how and when they are marketed to. — Jim 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

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits. — Casey Stengel

Courage is not the absence of fear — Richard Stengel

They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way. — Casey Stengel

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave. — Ralph Kiner

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets. — Casey Stengel

He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch. — Casey Stengel

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

I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant. — Casey Stengel

I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression. — Casey Stengel

Warren Berger's book is a cure for a disease in large enterprises. A More Beautiful Question provides a framework to help leaders ask the most important questions - which is one of the most fundamental characteristics of a great leader - while sharing inspiring stories to show the incredible power of this concept. — Jim Stengel

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

If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don't go to the zoo. Go to the jungle. — Jim Stengel

If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there. — Casey Stengel

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways. — 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

I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry. — Casey Stengel

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

Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane. — 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