If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
CASEY STENGELIf you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
CASEY STENGELDon’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
CASEY STENGELThere comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
CASEY STENGELThe team has come along slow but fast.
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 STENGELYou gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
CASEY STENGELYou have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
CASEY STENGELYou got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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 STENGELEverybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
CASEY STENGELWhen 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.
CASEY STENGELWithout losers, where would the winners be?
CASEY STENGELI feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
CASEY STENGELThe key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
CASEY STENGELIf you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
CASEY STENGELI 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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