Casey Stengel Quotes

We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

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

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

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.

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.

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.

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

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

What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?

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.

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.

(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.

Don't cut your nose off yourself.

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

Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch.

I couldn't have done it without my players.

Even my players aren't players.

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

Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad.

I never saw a player who had greater promise.

My health is good enough about the shoulders.

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

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

He (Mickey Mantle) has it in his body to be great.

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

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

What do you think, I was born at 60?

Most ball games are lost not won.

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.

Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.

I want you all to line up in alphabetical order according to your size.

The team has come along slow but fast.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.