Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
CASEY STENGELDon’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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 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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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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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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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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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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