If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
CASEY STENGELIf 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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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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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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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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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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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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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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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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