I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
CASEY STENGELBeing 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 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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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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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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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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I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
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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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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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