I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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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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If I’ve got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.
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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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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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 have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
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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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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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