The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
CASEY STENGELThe trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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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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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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