Casey Stengel Yankees Quotations

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

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

Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch.

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

He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.

I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

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

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

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.

What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?

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.

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.

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

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

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