Quote

The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

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
Come
Slow
Mets
Fast
Baseball
Along

More quotes by 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
You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
Casey Stengel
Image
I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.
Casey Stengel
Image
What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?
Casey Stengel
Image
You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.
Casey Stengel
Image
Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
Casey Stengel
Image
I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.
Casey Stengel
Image
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
Casey Stengel
Image
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
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
Even my players aren't players.
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
We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!
Casey Stengel
Image
I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
Casey Stengel
Image
Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.
Casey Stengel
Image
My health is good enough about the shoulders.
Casey Stengel
Image
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.
Casey Stengel
Image
Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.
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
The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
Casey Stengel