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

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

Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself. — Casey Stengel

Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey ... in the upper deck or the lower deck? — Casey 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

Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might. — Casey 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 anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed. — Casey Stengel

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

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

The Mets are gonna be amazing. — Casey Stengel

I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball. — Casey Stengel

I couldn't have done it without my players. — Casey Stengel

You could look it up. — Casey Stengel

What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute? — Casey Stengel

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

The Mets has come along slow, but fast! — Casey Stengel

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

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

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two. — Casey Stengel

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets). — 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 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. — Casey Stengel

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

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

The team has come along slow but fast. — 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

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

He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it. — Casey Stengel

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

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. — Casey Stengel

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

Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City. — Casey Stengel

Most games are lost, not won. — Casey Stengel

The trick is growing up without growing old. — 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

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English. — Casey Stengel

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

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

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

Even my players aren't players. — 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

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire. — Casey Stengel

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

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

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work. — Casey Stengel

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

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off. — Casey Stengel

Without losers, where would the winners be? — Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like. — 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

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.' — Casey Stengel

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

Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club. — Casey Stengel

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

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

If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred. — Casey Stengel

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

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

I never saw a player who had greater promise. — 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

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. — Casey Stengel

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

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

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

If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going. — Casey Stengel

You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field. — Casey Stengel

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

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

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers). — Casey Stengel

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

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

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense. — Casey Stengel

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

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

Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one. — 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

I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three. — Casey Stengel

We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays. — Casey Stengel

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

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. — Casey Stengel

Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height. — Casey Stengel

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

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living. — 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

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

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win. — Casey Stengel

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking. — 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

They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work. — Casey Stengel

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

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