You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
CASEY STENGELYou 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.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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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.
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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.
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You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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.
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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.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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?
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