Casey Stengel Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

He (Mickey Mantle) has it in his body to be great.

That kid can hit balls over buildings.

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.

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

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

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

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

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.

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

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

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

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.

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

Wake up muscles we're in New York now.

The team has come along slow but fast.

Don't cut your nose off yourself.

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

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

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

What do you think, I was born at 60?

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'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.

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

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

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

I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.

You could look it up.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

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.

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

I never saw a player who had greater promise.

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

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

I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink.

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

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

Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.

I couldn't have done it without my players.

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

Even my players aren't players.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed.

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

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

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?

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

It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.

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

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.

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

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

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.

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

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

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

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.

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.

Don't cut off your nose yourself.

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.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch.

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

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

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.

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

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