Casey Stengel Quotes

Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.

The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.

You could look it up.

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.

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.

Don't cut off your nose yourself.

I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.

I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit but can't do either.

I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.

Even my players aren't players.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out.

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.

Wake up muscles we're in New York now.

You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.

I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.

They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera.

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.

Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old

He (Mickey Mantle) has it in his body to be great.

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.

Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck?

The trick is growing up without growing old.

If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed.

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.

You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.

My health is good enough about the shoulders.

They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.

Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.