All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.
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.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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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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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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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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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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 like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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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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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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