No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
CASEY STENGELI 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 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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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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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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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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.
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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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