Casey Stengel quotes:

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.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

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?

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

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

Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.

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

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

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

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.

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

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

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

Most ball games are lost, not won.

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

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

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

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

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.

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

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

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

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

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.

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

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

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

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

Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck?

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out.

They say he's [Yogi Berra] 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

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

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

All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

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

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

He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

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.

Without losers, where would the winners be?

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

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

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

After a deplorable day afield, when asked by a reporter what he thought of his team's execution

See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.

I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.

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 have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.

They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.

He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do.

They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

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

It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

Do you realize how good you have to be to strike out 2000 times?

A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

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

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.

You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.

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.

That kid can hit balls over buildings.

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

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.

If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed.

Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.

Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.

Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

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

We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.

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.

If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.

(Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases...

You could look it up.

You make your own luck. Some people have bad luck all their lives.

Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.

If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going.

He (Mickey Mantle) has it in his body to be great.

I never saw a player who had greater promise.

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

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

What do you think, I was born at 60?

Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad.

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.

Don't cut your nose off yourself.

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

Don't cut off your nose yourself.

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.

We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'.

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

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

My health is good enough about the shoulders.

Even my players aren't players.

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

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.