Casey Stengel Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Casey Stengel
Casey Stengel Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
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.
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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.
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.
I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.
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 (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.
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.
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.
If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
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.
If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going.
You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.
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.
I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.
Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.
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.
I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.
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.
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.
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.
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.