Casey Stengel Quotes
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See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.
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(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.
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
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Do you realize how good you have to be to strike out 2000 times?
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A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.
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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.
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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.
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Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad.
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I couldn't have done it without my players.
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What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?
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Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.
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Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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.
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If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
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Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.
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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.
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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.
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Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.
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You could look it up.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old
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The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
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Even my players aren't players.
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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.
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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.
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