Casey Stengel Quotes about Sports

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.

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

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

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.

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

Without losers, where would the winners be?

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.

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

Most ball games are lost, not won.

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

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

There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.

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.

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

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

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

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

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

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

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

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

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

Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds.

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