Casey Stengel Sports Quotations

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

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

Most ball games are lost, not won.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Without losers, where would the winners be?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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