Casey Stengel

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

— Casey Stengel

Even my players aren't players.

— Casey Stengel

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

— 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

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

— Casey Stengel

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it thirty-six years and…

— 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

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

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

“The secret of managing is to keep the folks who hate you away from the ones who haven’t made up their minds…

— Casey Stengel

The trick is growing up without growing old.

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel

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

— 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

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

Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.

— Casey Stengel

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

— Casey Stengel

Don't cut your nose off yourself.

— Casey Stengel

Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on…

— Casey Stengel

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

— Casey Stengel