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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
If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.
— Richard 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 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 (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
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
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
Most games are lost, not won.
— Casey Stengel
The trick is growing up without growing old.
— 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
We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.
— Casey Stengel
After a deplorable day afield, when asked by a reporter what he thought of his team's execution
— Casey Stengel
Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.
— Casey Stengel
Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'
— Casey Stengel
You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.
— Casey Stengel
Most ball games are lost, not won.
— Casey Stengel
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
— Casey Stengel
Even my players aren't players.
— Casey Stengel
The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.
— Richard Stengel
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
— 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
Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.
— 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
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
— Casey Stengel
He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.
— Casey Stengel
Without losers, where would the winners be?
— Casey Stengel
The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.
— 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
Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.
— 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
Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup.
— 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
If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.
— 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
I never saw a player who had greater promise.
— 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
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
You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
— Casey Stengel
I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
— 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
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
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 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
My health is good enough about the shoulders.
— 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
The traditional model we all grew up with is obsolete.
— Jim Stengel
