The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
CASEY STENGELSure 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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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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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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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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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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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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You 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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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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