Casey Stengel Quotes (84 Quotes)

Now there's three things that can happen in a ballgame you can win, you can lose, or it can rain.

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

Most games are lost, not won.

The team has come along slow but fast.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

How the hell should I know Most of the people my age are dead. You could look it up.

Ain't that something what happened today. One of us got traded to Kansas City.

They are very brave men, the way they talk right up. Now if it was me, I would double-talk.

If you hit a home run you can take your time running the bases.

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.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

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.

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

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

It ain't the water cooler that's getting you out.

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

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

But the only things that interrupted our happy family life came out there on the field, injuries and accidents and sickness, as the boys gave it all they had.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

They've shown me ways to lose I never knew existed.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Without losers, where would the winners be?

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

People ask me, 'Casey, how can you speak so much when you don't talk English too good' Well, I've been invited to Europe, and I say, 'They don't speak English over there too good, either.'

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

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

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