Most ball games are lost, not won.
CASEY STENGELYou got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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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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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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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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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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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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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 Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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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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