Casey Stengel's Quotes

The trick is growing up without growing 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.

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

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Without losers, where would the winners be?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.