I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
CASEY STENGELI got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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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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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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 Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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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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