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.
CASEY STENGELTwo hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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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 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 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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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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