Casey Stengel famous quotes

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out
-- Casey Stengel

#Sometimes #Easier #Figures

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

#Funny #Witty #Laughter

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
-- Casey Stengel

#Teamwork #Player #Together

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

#Sports #Baseball #Hot

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

#Sports #Baseball #Rain

Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.
-- Casey Stengel

#Humorous #Order #Profound

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

#Motivational #Growing Up #Inspiration

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

#Running #Home #Yankees

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

#Sports #Baseball #Vices

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

#Sports #Loss #Ems

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

#Baseball #Practice #Dangerous

It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.
-- Casey Stengel

#Teamwork #Player #Together

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

#Winning #Years #League

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.
-- Casey Stengel

#Fall #Brave #Ruth

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

#Success #Sports #Baseball

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

#Sports #Airplane #Successful

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

#Sports #Games #Lost Friendship

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

#Motivational #Business #Hate

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

#Motivational #Birthday #Baseball

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

#Motivational #Teamwork #Baseball

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

#Baseball #Hurt #Sex

A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.
-- Casey Stengel

#People #Age #Looks

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

#Life #Sports #Men

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

#Sports #Midnight #Chance

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

#Baseball #Player #Midnight

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

#Baseball #Thinking #Bigs

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

#Past #Hitting #Might

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

#Matter

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.
-- Casey Stengel

#Fame #Halls

Even my players aren't players.
-- Casey Stengel

#Player

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.
-- Casey Stengel

#Sleep #Bed #Enthusiasm

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).
-- Casey Stengel

#Pitcher

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

#Pitcher

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

#Wonderful #Used

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.
-- Casey Stengel

#Mind #Way #Made

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

Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.
-- Casey Stengel

#Baseball #Son #Water

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

#Baseball #Kids #Games

Wake up muscles we're in New York now.
-- Casey Stengel

#Baseball #New York #Wake Up

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

#Baseball #Years #One Day

I couldn't have done it without my players.
-- Casey Stengel

#Baseball #Player #Done

Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.
-- Casey Stengel

#Baseball #Airplane #Boys

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

#Baseball #Winning #Twenties

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

#Baseball #Four #Broke

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

#Baseball #Museums #Bidding

That kid can hit balls over buildings.
-- Casey Stengel

#Baseball #Kids #Balls

All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.
-- Casey Stengel

#Baseball #Fields

Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.
-- Casey Stengel

#Years #Hitting #Brown

Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup.
-- Casey Stengel

#Looks #World #Jerry

What do you think, I was born at 60?
-- Casey Stengel

#Baseball #Thinking #Born

We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.
-- Casey Stengel

#Baseball #Cake #Birthday Cake

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

#Baseball #Years #Games

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

#Baseball #Drinking #Bars

Without losers, where would the winners be?
-- Casey Stengel

#Sports #Sunset #Loser

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

#Sports #Way #Mets

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 #Drinking #Winning

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

#Sports #Smart #Army

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

#Baseball #Sex #Player

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

#Money #Three #Saving Money

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

#Baseball #Balls #Catchers

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

#Baseball #Son #Winning

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

#Sports #Mistake #Clubs

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

#Sports #Winning #Yankees

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

#Motivational #Sports #Cutting

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

#Sports #Baseball #Running