You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
CASEY STENGELSon, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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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 Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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You gotta learn that if you don’t get it by midnight, chances are you ain’t gonna get it, and if you do, it ain’t worth it.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds.
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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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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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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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The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn’t argue with one. I’d put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
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