Quotes By Casey Stengel

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Most games are lost, not won.

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

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

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

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?

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

The team has come along slow but fast.

I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink.

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