Casey Stengel Quotes

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do.

It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'.

He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.

I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.

The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.

Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.

Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds.

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

Don't cut your nose off yourself.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.

Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.

They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going.

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.

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.

(Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases.

All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.

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.

Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.

There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.