100 Quotes by Casey Stengel
Casey Stengel, a legendary baseball player and manager, is an iconic figure in the history of Major League Baseball. As a player, he showcased his skills as an outfielder and consistently contributed to his teams with his exceptional batting and fielding abilities. However, it was his tenure as a manager that truly defined his legacy. Stengel became renowned for his strategic acumen and his unique ability to motivate and communicate with players, leading to his success as a manager for several teams, most notably the New York Yankees.
Under his leadership, the Yankees achieved an unprecedented five consecutive World Series titles from 1949 to 1953. Stengel's witty personality and colorful quotes also made him a beloved figure in baseball and beyond. His impact on the sport is felt to this day, as he remains one of the most successful and influential managers in baseball history, and his strategies and managerial philosophies have continued to shape the game for generations of coaches and players.
Casey Stengel Quotes
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
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.
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.
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.
The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
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.
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out
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.
They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.
Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
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.
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.
Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.
We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!
The trick is growing up without growing old.
You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.
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.
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
Without losers, where would the winners be?
It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.
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.
Do you realize how good you have to be to strike out 2000 times?
Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.
We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.
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.
He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out.
There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.
Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.
The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.
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.
Don't cut off your nose yourself.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'
The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.
Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.
They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.
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.
You make your own luck. Some people have bad luck all their lives.
If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.
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.
Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going.
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.
That kid can hit balls over buildings.
Wake up muscles we're in New York now.
You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.
Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).
If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed.
Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.
Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.
I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.
We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.
You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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 can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.
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.
Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.
Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.
What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?
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.
Don't cut your nose off yourself.
Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.
You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad.
My health is good enough about the shoulders.
― Casey Stengel Quotes
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