Casey Stengel Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

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

Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.

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

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

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

The trick is growing up without growing old.

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

Without losers, where would the winners be?

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

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

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

Most ball games are lost, not won.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You could look it up.

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

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

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

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

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

Don't cut off your nose yourself.

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

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 best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 Mets has come along slow, but fast!