Casey Stengel

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

— Casey Stengel

I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.

— Casey Stengel

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

I never saw a player who had greater promise.

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

That game was so famous they never used me.

— Casey Stengel

“Plea to the early 1960's NY Mets. "Can't anyone here play this game?”

— Casey Stengel

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

I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball…

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the…

— Casey Stengel

I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit…

— Casey Stengel

Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances…

— Casey Stengel

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

— Casey Stengel

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

— Casey Stengel

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…

— Casey Stengel

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

“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

Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even…

— Casey Stengel

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way…

— Casey Stengel

I stayed up last night and watched the Republican Convention all night long. I watched all of them talk, and listened to…

— Casey Stengel

They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick…

— Casey Stengel

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you…

— Casey Stengel

I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.

— Casey Stengel

Do you realize how good you have to be to strike out 2000 times?

— Casey Stengel

He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.

— Casey Stengel

I couldn't have done it without my players.

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed.

— Casey Stengel

We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinking aren't hitting.

— Casey Stengel

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

— Casey Stengel

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.

— Casey Stengel

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

— Casey Stengel

Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.

— Casey Stengel

I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

— Casey Stengel

They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.

— Casey Stengel

Without losers, where would the winners be?

— Casey Stengel