Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
CASEY STENGELThe Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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 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 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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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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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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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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If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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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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