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Casey Stengel
American
Athlete
About the author
I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Successful
#Skill
If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Thinking
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Thinking
#Baseball
#Being
If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Army
I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Practice
I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Play
I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Midnight
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Art
#Home
#Ability
#Credit
Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Drinking
Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Years
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.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Hurt
#Baseball
#Being
#Woman
#Night
Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Want
#May
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.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Will
#Vice
Most games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Games
The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Day
Never make predictions, especially about the future.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Future
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Baseball
#Worth
Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Now
#Baseball
#Rain
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Successful
Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Son
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Trying
#Age
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#People
#Being
#Key
#Hate
#Manager
The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
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.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Successful
#Hate
The team has come along slow but fast.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Old
#Growing up
You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Living
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.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Trouble
#Women
#Kiss
You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Time
#Right
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Baseball
#Rain
There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Time
#Life
#Man
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Games
#Stars
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?
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Wife
#Family
#Home
#Golf
#Money
#Funny
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.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Being
#Youth
#Mistake
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Americans
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.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Credit
Without losers, where would the winners be?
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
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.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Worth
#Midnight
You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Trouble
#Night
#Sex
Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Home
It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Friends
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Games
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
Casey Stengel,
American
Athlete
#Right