Top 100 Stengel Quotes

#1. 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

Stengel Quotes #414
#2. 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

Stengel Quotes #8788
#3. 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

Stengel Quotes #22990
#4. The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #39600
#5. Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #83843
#6. 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

Stengel Quotes #100876
#7. 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

Stengel Quotes #104736
#8. 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

Stengel Quotes #111887
#9. 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

Stengel Quotes #127242
#10. Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #147462
#11. You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #160786
#12. I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #161124
#13. They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #171435
#14. 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

Stengel Quotes #182594
#15. 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

Stengel Quotes #194884
#16. The traditional model we all grew up with is obsolete.

Jim Stengel

Stengel Quotes #198258
#17. 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

Stengel Quotes #203028
#18. He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #220514
#19. You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #237241
#20. Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #269736
#21. 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

Stengel Quotes #269977
#22. 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

Stengel Quotes #286876
#23. You make your own luck. Some people have bad
luck all their lives.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #296923
#24. Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #308141
#25. Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #313501
#26. 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

Stengel Quotes #333828
#27. Most games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #338187
#28. The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #338247
#29. I never saw a player who had greater promise.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #350355
#30. 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

Stengel Quotes #375715
#31. They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #397165
#32. 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

Stengel Quotes #417351
#33. You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #419662
#34. 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

Stengel Quotes #440137
#35. He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #456466
#36. It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #503100
#37. 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

Stengel Quotes #508183
#38. 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

Stengel Quotes #517709
#39. 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

Stengel Quotes #562225
#40. I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #568030
#41. 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

Stengel Quotes #571104
#42. Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #576593
#43. 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

Stengel Quotes #617108
#44. Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #617760
#45. 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

Stengel Quotes #629771
#46. Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #646175
#47. We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #649820
#48. What do you think, I was born at 60?

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #658685
#49. We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #676720
#50. I couldn't have done it without my players.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #695909
#51. Most ball games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #709234
#52. Courage is not the absence of fear

Richard Stengel

Stengel Quotes #709356
#53. 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

Stengel Quotes #714627
#54. Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey ... in the upper deck or the lower deck?

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #720618
#55. I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #722470
#56. 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

Stengel Quotes #725258
#57. If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #748725
#58. They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #753345
#59. I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #799480
#60. 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

Stengel Quotes #801113
#61. It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #810900
#62. The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #817433
#63. 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

Stengel Quotes #822680
#64. 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

Stengel Quotes #823220
#65. Even my players aren't players.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #825870
#66. I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #828929
#67. Do you realize how good you have to be to strike out 2000 times?

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #832504
#68. Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #845232
#69. 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

Stengel Quotes #860079
#70. 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

Stengel Quotes #861549
#71. No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #869047
#72. Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #875028
#73. 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

Stengel Quotes #882987
#74. You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #884247
#75. You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #892309
#76. 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

Stengel Quotes #892372
#77. Without losers, where would the winners be?

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #903336
#78. Wake up muscles we're in New York now.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #917811
#79. Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #922261
#80. The trick is growing up without growing old.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #950738
#81. My health is good enough about the shoulders.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #962064
#82. 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

Stengel Quotes #987584
#83. 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

Stengel Quotes #1030858
#84. Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #1032622
#85. 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

Stengel Quotes #1036442
#86. (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

Stengel Quotes #1041849
#87. 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

Stengel Quotes #1049018
#88. Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #1057839
#89. I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #1058802
#90. Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #1103751
#91. Our legacy is how we spend our time and who we spend it with.

Jim Stengel

Stengel Quotes #1103955
#92. You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #1120307
#93. The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #1150501
#94. Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #1156016
#95. What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #1174071
#96. The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

Richard Stengel

Stengel Quotes #1181345
#97. After a deplorable day afield, when asked by a reporter what he thought of his team's execution

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #1193173
#98. Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #1194265
#99. All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #1199728
#100. Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad.

Casey Stengel

Stengel Quotes #1202335

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