Best 112 quotes of Casey Stengel on MyQuotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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 couldn't have done it without my players.

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

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

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

If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I never saw a player who had greater promise.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.

Most ball games are lost, not won.