Baseball Quotes by Casey Stengel

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

— Casey Stengel

All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.

— Casey Stengel

That kid can hit balls over buildings.

— Casey Stengel

The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

— Casey Stengel

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

What do you think, I was born at 60?

— Casey Stengel

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.

— Casey Stengel

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

Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup.

— Casey Stengel

Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad.

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

— Casey Stengel

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

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

They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are…

— Casey Stengel

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

— Casey Stengel

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

He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in…

— Casey Stengel

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

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

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

— Casey Stengel

Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he…

— Casey Stengel

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.

— Casey Stengel

Wake up muscles we're in New York now.

— Casey Stengel

I couldn't have done it without my players.

— Casey Stengel

I never saw a player who had greater promise.

— Casey Stengel

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

— 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

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

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

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

— 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