Casey Stengel Quotes - BrainyQuote

American - Baseball Player July 30, 1890 - September 29, 1975

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height. - Casey Stengel

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height. Casey Stengel

Funny Your Everyone

The trick is growing up without growing old. - Casey Stengel

The trick is growing up without growing old. Casey Stengel

Age Old Growing Up

Never make predictions, especially about the future. - Casey Stengel

Never make predictions, especially about the future. Casey Stengel

Future Never Make

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

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

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

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

Good Sports Easy

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. Casey Stengel

Change Time Your

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

Good Always Will

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

Hate Keep Secret

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

Night Woman Never

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

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

Leadership Good Hate

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There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them. - Casey Stengel

There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them. Casey Stengel

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

Because Balls Catcher

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed. Casey Stengel

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

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

Hot Baseball Worth

Most ball games are lost, not won. - Casey Stengel

Most ball games are lost, not won. Casey Stengel

Sports Lost Ball

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful. Casey Stengel

Walk Airplane Alike

Without losers, where would the winners be? Casey Stengel

Winners Without Where

The team has come along slow but fast. - Casey Stengel

The team has come along slow but fast. Casey Stengel

Sports Fast Slow

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

Funny Family Home

Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height. Casey Stengel

Your Height Everybody

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

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

Chance Midnight Worth

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

Stars Win They Say

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

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

Age Born Trying

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

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

Money Living Three

If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there. Casey Stengel

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

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

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

Time Failure Lose

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

Skill Game Ball

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

Art Home Credit

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win. Casey Stengel

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. Casey Stengel

Me New Impression

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

Bad Watches Midnight

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

Good Two Million

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three. Casey Stengel

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

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

Me Feel Honored

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice. Casey Stengel

Practice Dangerous Batting

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

Drive Three Two

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

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

Hotel Drink Bar

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

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

Thinking Better Crazy

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

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

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

Virtues Credit Never

I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry. Casey Stengel

People Cry Dentist

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

Wonderful Meet Friends

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

Good Thinking Start

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

Women Kiss Trouble

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

Youth Mistake Me

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits. Casey Stengel

Home Else Someone

You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane. Casey Stengel

I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me. Casey Stengel

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

Myself May Want

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