Quotes by Casey Stengel

About Casey Stengel:

Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and manager. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.
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The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

Casey Stengel

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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.

Casey Stengel

Without losers, where would the winners be?

Casey Stengel

Most games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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.

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

Casey Stengel

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

Casey Stengel

Author Bio

  • NameCasey Stengel
  • DescriptionAmerican baseball player and coach
  • BornJuly 30, 1890
  • DiedSeptember 29, 1975
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSportsperson; Baseball Player