The trick is growing up without growing old.
CASEY STENGELAbility is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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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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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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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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They 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.
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The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds.
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They 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?
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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 gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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