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.
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.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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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 can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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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.
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The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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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 with women umpires is that I couldn’t argue with one. I’d put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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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