Casey Stengel Quotes About Baseball
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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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Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.
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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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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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Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.
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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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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.
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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.
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You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.
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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.
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I never saw a player who had greater promise.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'
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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.
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My health is good enough about the shoulders.
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Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.
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Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.
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It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.
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Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
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I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.
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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.
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I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.
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Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).
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