Quotes By Casey Stengel

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

Without losers, where would the winners be?

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

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

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

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

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.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

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

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

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

The team has come along slow but fast.

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 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.

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.

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

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

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.

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

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

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

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