Author: Casey Stengel Page 2

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

My health is good enough about the shoulders.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

When a fielder gets the pitcher in trouble, the pitcher has to pitch himself out of the slump he isn’t in.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

The team has come along slow but fast.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

There comes a time in every man’s life… and I’ve had many of them.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

The trick is growing up without growing old.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going; I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Most ball games are lost, not won.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game, it’s that they stay out all night looking for it.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I couldn't done it without my players.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager