Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
CASEY STENGELThe 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.
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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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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If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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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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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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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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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
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The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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