Casey stengel quotes

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

There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Do you realize how good you have to be to strike out 2000 times?

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

If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.

You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

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

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.

They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

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

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

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

Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup.

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

Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.

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.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

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

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

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.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

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 would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

You make your own luck. Some people have bad luck all their lives.

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

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

You could look it up.

Don't cut off your nose yourself.

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?

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

Wake up muscles we're in New York now.

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

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.

All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

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

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

The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.

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.

He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do.

Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.

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

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

Don't cut your nose off yourself.

Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck?

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

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed.

You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit but can't do either.

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.

We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.

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

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

There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

What do you think, I was born at 60?

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

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

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

Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.

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.

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

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

Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.

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.

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old

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.

We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'.

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

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.

Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.

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

A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.

If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

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

The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.

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.

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

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

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

They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.

(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.

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.

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

We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

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

Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.

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.

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

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 people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.

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.

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.

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

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

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.

I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.

Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

That kid can hit balls over buildings.

I couldn't have done it without my players.

Even my players aren't players.

Without losers, where would the winners be?