Casey Stengel Quotes

We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.

Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch.

Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

I never saw a player who had greater promise.

Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.

I couldn't have done it without my players.

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

What do you think, I was born at 60?

He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.

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.

Without losers, where would the winners be?

You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.

I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.

See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.

That kid can hit balls over buildings.

Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.

Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup.

If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.

Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.

Do you realize how good you have to be to strike out 2000 times?

I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.