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.
CASEY STENGELYou 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.
CASEY STENGELSon, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
CASEY STENGELThe key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
CASEY STENGELYou can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
CASEY STENGELIf we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
CASEY STENGELIf 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.
CASEY STENGELThey 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.
CASEY STENGELNever make predictions, especially about the future.
CASEY STENGELBeen in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
CASEY STENGELIf you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
CASEY STENGELSure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
CASEY STENGELIt’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
CASEY STENGELDon’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
CASEY STENGELI’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
CASEY STENGELThe 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.
CASEY STENGELThey 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?
CASEY STENGEL