Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
CASEY STENGELFinding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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