Words matter. These are the best Casey Stengel Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
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.
I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
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.
Without losers, where would the winners be?
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?
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.
Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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.
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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.
The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.
The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
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.
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.
If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
