Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
CASEY STENGELOldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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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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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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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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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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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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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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