Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
CASEY STENGELYou can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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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 feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
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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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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 go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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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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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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