Casey Stengel Baseball Quotations

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

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

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

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

What do you think, I was born at 60?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I never saw a player who had greater promise.

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

That kid can hit balls over buildings.

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.

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.

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

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.

I couldn't have done it without my players.

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.

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

The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

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

Wake up muscles we're in New York now.

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

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.

I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I got $2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ...I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit.