I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
CASEY STENGELThere comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
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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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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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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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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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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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I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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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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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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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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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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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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