I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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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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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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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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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 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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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
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