The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
CASEY STENGELSon, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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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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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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The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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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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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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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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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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