Top 100 Stengel Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Stengel

#1. 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

#2. Time magazine's Jay Carney and Richard Stengel are now in government while Obama aides David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs are commentators on MSNBC.

Glenn Greenwald

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Although we had no hope of defeating the enemy in the battlefield, nevertheless, we fought back to keep the idea of liberation alive. From a conversation with Richard Stengel, January 13, 1993

Nelson Mandela

#7. If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

Ralph Kiner

#8. Stengel admitted. "I'm not going to make any decision until I have to give the umpire my batting order. Then you'll know as well as I." The next afternoon, Casey resisted

Andrew O'Toole

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

Casey Stengel

#10. I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

Walter Alston

#11. I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.

Warren Spahn

#12. It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.

Bob Costas

#13. Most people, in committing a suicidal act, are just as muddled as when they do anything important under emotional stress. Carefully planned acts of suicide are as rare as carefully planned acts of homicide.

Erwin Stengel

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

#18. 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.

Casey Stengel

#19. 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.

Casey Stengel

#20. What we really need is a mindset shift that will make us relevant to todays consumers, a mindset shift from telling to selling to building relationships.

Jim Stengel

#21. 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

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

#26. 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.

Casey Stengel

#27. 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

#28. The traditional model we all grew up with is obsolete.

Jim Stengel

#29. 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

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

#33. 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

#34. Consumers today are less responsive to traditional media. They are embracing new technologies that empower them with more control over how and when they are marketed to.

Jim Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

#38. Most games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

#41. 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

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

Casey Stengel

#43. 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.

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

#45. 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.

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

#48. 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

#49. Remain stuck inside your current business model, and your business's days are numbered. Make a brand ideal your North Star, and the sky's the limit.

Jim Stengel

#50. 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.

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

#52. 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

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

#61. Courage is not the absence of fear

Richard Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

#64. 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.

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

#68. 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.

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

#71. 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

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

Casey Stengel

#73. Even my players aren't players.

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

#77. 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.

Casey Stengel

#78. 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.

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

#89. 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.

Casey Stengel

#90. We are an industry that has historically been at the forefront of defining new media environments in ways that benefit consumers and move our entire business model forward. We must ensure that while we are moving quickly, we are also moving smartly.

Jim Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

#92. 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

#93. (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 ...

Casey Stengel

#94. 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.

Casey Stengel