You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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 feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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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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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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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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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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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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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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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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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There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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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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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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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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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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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I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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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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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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