Author: Casey Stengel Page 2

If anyone wants me tell them I'm being embalmed.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Situations

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

Look at him (Bobby Richardson) – he doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t chew, he doesn’t stay out late, and he still can’t hit .250.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Characteristics Sports

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Misspokements

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports

He'd fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
People Situations

He (Satchel Paige) threw the ball as far from the bat and as close to the plate as possible.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports

They say Yogi Berra is funny; well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires… what's funny about that?

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Beliefs Opinion

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Activities Baseball Characteristics Sports

He’s throwing grounders.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Communication Death Misspokements Speech Time

I've got a tip on the market for you fellows, buy Pennsylvania Railroad – because by tomorrow night about a dozen of you bums will be riding on it.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb… it took me only a few days to correct that impression.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball People Self Sports

Old-timers weekends, and airplane landings are alike; if you can walk away from them, they’re successful.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Situations

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed… it evens itself out.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Age Old Young

Even my players aren't players.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports

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
Baseball Misspokements Sports

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports