Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel, nicknamed "The Old Perfessor", was an American Major League Baseball right fielder and manager. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966... (wikipedia)
The Mets has come along slow, but fast!
Even my players aren't players.
You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.
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.
Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.
They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.
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.
Wake up muscles we're in New York now.
(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.
If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going.
He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.
Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.
I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.
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.
I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit but can't do either.
I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.
Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old
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.
Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.
We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!
Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).
Most ball games are lost, not won.
A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.
Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.
Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.
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.
Do you realize how good you have to be to strike out 2000 times?
Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.
Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'
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 say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.
Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out
The Mets are gonna be amazing.
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.
Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
After a deplorable day afield, when asked by a reporter what he thought of his team's execution
Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
Now there's three things that can happen in a ballgame: you can win, you can lose, or it can rain.
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice.
I always heard it couldn't be done, but sometimes it don't always work.
Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ballplayer. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.
Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.
It ain't the water cooler that's getting you out.
I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I got $2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ...I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit.
Look at him. He doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, he doesn't chew and he doesn't stay out late - and he still can't hit.
Johnny Sain doesn't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.
Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.
We are in such a slump that even the ones that aren't drinkin' aren't hittin'.
We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinking aren't hitting.
You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, Can't anybody here play this game?
We was going to get you a cake, but we figured you'd drop it.
But the only things that interrupted our happy family life came out there on the field, injuries and accidents and sickness, as the boys gave it all they had.
You got to get 27 outs to win.
I stayed up last night and watched the Republican Convention all night long. I watched all of them talk, and listened to them and seen them and I'm not interested in politics. If you watch them and listen to them you can find out why.
The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.
People ask me, 'Casey, how can you speak so much when you don't talk English too good?' Well, I've been invited to Europe, and I say, 'They don't speak English over there too good, either.'
A shave, please, but don't cut my throat. I may want to do it later myself.
That game was so famous they never used me.
Ain't that something what happened today. One of us got traded to Kansas City.
They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
This is the greatest ball club a man could manage.
It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part
They are very brave men, the way they talk right up. Now if it was me, I would double-talk.
They've shown me ways to lose I never knew existed.
If you hit a home run you can take your time running the bases.
I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
I don't know if he throws a spit ball, but he sure spits on the ball.
I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit. This is the greatest ball club a man could manage.
All right, everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.