Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
CASEY STENGELI feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
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I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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The team has come along slow but fast.
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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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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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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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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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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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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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They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?
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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’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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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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I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.
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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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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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