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.
CASEY STENGELYou got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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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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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 got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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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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