Top 146 Quotes & Sayings by Casey Stengel
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American baseball player Casey Stengel.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
The trick is growing up without growing old.
Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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.
You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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.
You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.
Never make predictions, especially about the future.
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.
You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.
Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
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.
You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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.
I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.
Without losers, where would the winners be?
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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?
I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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.
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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.
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
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.
The team has come along slow but fast.
There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.
Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
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.
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.
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.
They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.
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.
The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.
Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out
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