Top 100 Quotes About Casey Stengel

#1. 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.

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#2. 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.

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#3. The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

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

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#5. All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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

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

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#10. I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

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#11. They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

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

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

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#14. 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.

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#15. He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.

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#16. You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.

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#17. Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

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#18. They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

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#19. You make your own luck. Some people have bad
luck all their lives.

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#20. Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.

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

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#22. Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

Thomas Boswell

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#23. Most games are lost, not won.

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#24. The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.

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#25. I never saw a player who had greater promise.

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#26. 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.

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#27. They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

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#28. 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.

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

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#30. 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.

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#31. He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

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

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#33. 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?

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#34. Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds.

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

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#36. 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.

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#37. Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.

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

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#39. He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

Mickey Mantle

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

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

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#42. What do you think, I was born at 60?

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#43. We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

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#44. I couldn't have done it without my players.

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#45. Most ball games are lost, not won.

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#46. I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?

Sparky Anderson

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#47. Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey ... in the upper deck or the lower deck?

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

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#49. He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do.

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

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#51. They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.

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

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#53. 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.

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#54. It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

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

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

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#57. If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going.

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#58. Even my players aren't players.

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#59. I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

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#60. Do you realize how good you have to be to strike out 2000 times?

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

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#62. 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.

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#63. Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.

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

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#65. Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

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#66. When Casey Stengel was putting his mark on all four New York baseball teams, he came off as many things. I have to admit I never thought of him as anybody's uncle.

George Vecsey

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

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#68. You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

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#69. You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.

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#70. Without losers, where would the winners be?

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#71. Wake up muscles we're in New York now.

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#72. Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.

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#73. The trick is growing up without growing old.

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#74. My health is good enough about the shoulders.

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#75. I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit but can't do either.

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#76. Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

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#77. 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.

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#78. (Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases ...

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#79. 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.

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

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

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#82. Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.

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

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

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

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#86. What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?

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#87. After a deplorable day afield, when asked by a reporter what he thought of his team's execution

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

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#89. All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

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

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

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#92. Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

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#93. 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.

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#94. You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

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#95. I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.

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#96. I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.

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#97. That kid can hit balls over buildings.

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#98. Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch.

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#99. He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

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#100. 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.

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