If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
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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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 a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
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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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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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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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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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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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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 can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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