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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.


You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.


I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.


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


If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.


I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.


You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.


I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.


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


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


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.


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.


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?


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


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


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


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


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


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