Casey Stengel Quotes about Baseball - Page 2

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

They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera.

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

That kid can hit balls over buildings.

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

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

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

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

All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.

I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.

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

It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.

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

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

Wake up muscles we're in New York now.

What do you think, I was born at 60?

Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.

I couldn't have done it without my players.

You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

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

I never saw a player who had greater promise.

Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.