Author: Casey Stengel Page 2

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

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports

Most ball games are lost, not won.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

Now there’s three things you can do in a baseball game; you can win or you can lose or it can rain.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports

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
Age Old Young

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

The trick is growing up without growing old.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Age Life Old

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

My health is good enough about the shoulders.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Health Intelligence

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
People Situations

He (Lyndon Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Misspokements Poverty Sports

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
Baseball Sex Sports

Without losers, where would the winners be?

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
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

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

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

Even my players aren't players.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports

I’ll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Age Baseball Old Sports

I couldn't done it without my players.

(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

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Misspokements

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Age Death Life Misspokements Old People Time