I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
CASEY STENGELBeing 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.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don’t drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren’t speaking and I said I’ll take that drink.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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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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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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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 Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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