When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
CASEY STENGELThe 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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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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 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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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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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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The team has come along slow but fast.
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