Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
- Casey Stengel Quote

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
- Casey Stengel Quote

Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
- Casey Stengel Quote

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
- Casey Stengel Quote

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

I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink.
- Casey Stengel Quote

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.
- Casey Stengel Quote

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
- Casey Stengel Quote

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

If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.
- Casey Stengel Quote

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

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.
- Casey Stengel Quote

Most ball games are lost, not won.
- Casey Stengel Quote

Never make predictions, especially about the future.
- Casey Stengel Quote

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

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 Quote

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
- Casey Stengel Quote

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

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

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
- Casey Stengel Quote

The team has come along slow but fast.
- Casey Stengel Quote

The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel Quote

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
- Casey Stengel Quote

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
- Casey Stengel Quote

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?
- Casey Stengel Quote

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.
- Casey Stengel Quote

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
- Casey Stengel Quote

Without losers, where would the winners be?
- Casey Stengel Quote

You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.
- Casey Stengel Quote

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
- Casey Stengel Quote