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.
CASEY STENGELIf 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 was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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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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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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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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The team has come along slow but fast.
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