Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
CASEY STENGELYou have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
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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’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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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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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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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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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 gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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