Casey Stengel Quotations

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The trick is growing up without growing old.

The team has come along slow but fast.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

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

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

Now there's three things that can happen in a ballgame: you can win, you can lose, or it can rain.

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

I always heard it couldn't be done, but sometimes it don't always work.

Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.

Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ballplayer. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.

I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I got $2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ...I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit.

Look at him. He doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, he doesn't chew and he doesn't stay out late - and he still can't hit.

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.

Johnny Sain doesn't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.

It ain't the water cooler that's getting you out.

We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinking aren't hitting.

We are in such a slump that even the ones that aren't drinkin' aren't hittin'.

You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, Can't anybody here play this game?

After a deplorable day afield, when asked by a reporter what he thought of his team's execution

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

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.

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

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

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

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.

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

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

Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

You could look it up.

(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...

Wake up muscles we're in New York now.

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

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

They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

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

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

Even my players aren't players.

The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.

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