Casey Stengel Quotes About Sports
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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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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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Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.
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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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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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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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We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!
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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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Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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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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They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?
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If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.
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You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
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It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.
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There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
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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 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.
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The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.
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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.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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