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?
CASEY STENGELThey say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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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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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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