You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.
CASEY STENGELI was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
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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’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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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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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It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
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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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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
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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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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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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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Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
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