Quote

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

Casey Stengel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Casey Stengel
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: July 30
Died: 1975
Died: September 29
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Kansas City
Missouri
Charles Dillon Casey Stengel
Owners
Baseball
Playing
Crazy
Sports
Better
Thinking
Managing
Owner

More quotes by Casey Stengel

Image
I couldn't have done it without my players.
Casey Stengel
Image
Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.
Casey Stengel
Image
You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.
Casey Stengel
Image
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.
Casey Stengel
Image
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
Casey Stengel
Image
You could look it up.
Casey Stengel
Image
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.
Casey Stengel
Image
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.
Casey Stengel
Image
We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!
Casey Stengel
Image
What do you think, I was born at 60?
Casey Stengel
Image
We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.
Casey Stengel
Image
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
Image
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
Casey Stengel
Image
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.
Casey Stengel
Image
Without losers, where would the winners be?
Casey Stengel
Image
Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.
Casey Stengel
Image
All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.
Casey Stengel
Image
Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
Casey Stengel
Image
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
Image
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.
Casey Stengel