I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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.
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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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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