You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
CASEY STENGELI feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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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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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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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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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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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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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 Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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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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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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