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Casey Stengel Quotes


Most ball games are lost, not won.

Most games are lost, not won.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 team has come along slow but fast.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

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

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.

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

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

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

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

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?