Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
CASEY STENGELYou can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
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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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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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If I’ve got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.
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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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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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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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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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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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