You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
CASEY STENGELDon’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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You gotta learn that if you don’t get it by midnight, chances are you ain’t gonna get it, and if you do, it ain’t worth it.
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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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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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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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There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
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If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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