Casey Stengel Quotes about Baseball

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.

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

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

Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.

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

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

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.

Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.

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

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

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

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.

The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

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