If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
CASEY STENGELIf you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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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 got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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