The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
CASEY STENGELBeen in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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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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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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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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.
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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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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 don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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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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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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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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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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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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