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 STENGELSon, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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Everybody 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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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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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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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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