It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
CASEY STENGELYou have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
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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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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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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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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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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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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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