Casey Stengel Quotes

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.

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

Don't cut off your nose yourself.

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

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.

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

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

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

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

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.

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.

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

We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'.

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.

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

I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.

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

I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.

The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.

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

That kid can hit balls over buildings.

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

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

If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

Wake up muscles we're in New York now.

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

If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed.

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

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