Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
CASEY STENGELThe Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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You gotta learn that if you don’t get it by midnight, chances are you ain’t gonna get it, and if you do, it ain’t worth it.
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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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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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 trick is growing up without growing old.
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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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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