The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.
CASEY STENGELYou have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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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 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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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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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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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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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 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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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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