He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two. — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets). — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire. — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman,… — Casey Stengel Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home.… — Casey Stengel Copy Share 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… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
“If you don't have a catcher, the ball goes to the backstop. Casey Stengel explaining why the Mets selected mediocre catcher Hobie… — Casey Stengel Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup. — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad. — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball… — Casey Stengel Copy Share 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… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner. — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'. — Casey Stengel Copy Share
They say he's [Yogi Berra] funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays… — Casey Stengel Copy Share
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… — Casey Stengel Copy Share
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. — Casey Stengel Copy Share
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 Copy Share
If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going. — Casey Stengel Copy Share
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… — Casey Stengel Copy Share
The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it. — Casey Stengel Copy Share
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em. — Casey Stengel Copy Share
I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players. — Casey Stengel Copy Share
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… — Casey Stengel Copy Share
You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane. — Casey Stengel Copy Share
