The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
CASEY STENGELTwo hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
-
-
The team has come along slow but fast.
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 -
If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
CASEY STENGEL -
You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
CASEY STENGEL -
If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
CASEY STENGEL -
I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
CASEY STENGEL -
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
CASEY STENGEL -
I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
CASEY STENGEL -
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
CASEY STENGEL -
Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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 -
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 -
Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
CASEY STENGEL -
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.
CASEY STENGEL -
The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
CASEY STENGEL -
You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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 -
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
CASEY STENGEL -
I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
CASEY STENGEL -
The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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 -
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
CASEY STENGEL -
I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
CASEY STENGEL -
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.
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 -
You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
CASEY STENGEL