Casey Stengel Quotes

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

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

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.

You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.

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

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

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.

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

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

Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.

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

The trick is growing up without growing old.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Without losers, where would the winners be?

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

Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck?

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.

You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.