Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
CASEY STENGELAbility is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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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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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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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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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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All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.
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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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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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