Casey Stengel Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

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

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Teamwork, Player

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

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Hot

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

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Rain

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

• 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.

  Casey Stengel

  Success, Sports, Baseball

• 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?

  Casey Stengel

  Funny, Beautiful, Sports

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

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Loss, Ems

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

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Vices

  Quoted in Paul Dickson, The Official Explanations (1980)

• Most ball games are lost, not won.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Games, Lost Friendship

  Quoted in Paul Dickson, Baseball's Greatest Quotations (1991)

• 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

  Sports, Mistake, Clubs

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

  Casey Stengel

  Funny, Sports, Airplane

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

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Sports, Jobs

• 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.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Gun, Guy

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

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Two

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

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Balls, Clubs

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

  Casey Stengel

  Funny, Life, Sports

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 6 May 1981. This quotation marks Stengel's grave.

• 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.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Midnight, Chance

• Without losers, where would the winners be?

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Sunset, Loser

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Way, Mets

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

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Smart, Army

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

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Winning, Yankees

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

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Ballparks, Feels

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

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Successful, Player

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

  Casey Stengel

  Friends, Sports, Wonderful

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

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Crazy

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

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Thinking, Yankees

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