Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
CASEY STENGELI broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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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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Never make predictions, especially about the future.
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You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
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The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
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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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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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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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