Casey Stengel Quotes

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

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

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Most ball games are lost, not won.

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.

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

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

Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.

The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.

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

The trick is growing up without growing old.

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

You could look it up.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

Without losers, where would the winners be?

Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.

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.

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

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.

There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.

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

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.