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.
CASEY STENGELManaging is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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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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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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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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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 have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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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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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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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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The team has come along slow but fast.
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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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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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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.
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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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