Casey Stengel

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

— Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

— Casey Stengel

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

He (Mickey Mantle) has it in his body to be great.

— Casey Stengel

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

— Casey Stengel

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only…

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

— Casey Stengel

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

— Casey Stengel

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

— Casey Stengel

Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.

— Casey Stengel

You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do,…

— Casey Stengel

I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I…

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

— Casey Stengel

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

— Casey Stengel

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

— Casey Stengel

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

— Casey Stengel

I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.

— Casey Stengel

You make your own luck. Some people have bad luck all their lives.

— Casey Stengel

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.

— Casey Stengel

Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

“all right everyone, line up alphebetically according to your hight”

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.

— Casey Stengel

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

— Casey Stengel

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel