Casey Stengel Quotes

The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.

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.

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

Don't cut off your nose yourself.

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

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

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

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

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

You could look it up.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Most ball games are lost, not won.

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

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

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

Without losers, where would the winners be?

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

The trick is growing up without growing old.

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

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

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

Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.

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

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

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

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