Best Quotes by Casey Stengel (Top 10)
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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
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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.
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Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
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The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
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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.
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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.
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Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
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More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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.
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The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.
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You could look it up.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
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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.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.
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Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.
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I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'.
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