Casey Stengel Quotes

They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

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

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

Baseball manager Casey Stengel once quipped, “The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.

In any group, you've got those who love you, those who hate you and those who are undecided. The key to leadership is to keep the ones who hate you away from those who are undecided.

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

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

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

If you don't have a catcher, the ball goes to the backstop. Casey Stengel explaining why the Mets selected mediocre catcher Hobie Landrith first in the expansion draft.

Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

You can look it up.

Plea to the early 1960's NY Mets. "Can't anyone here play this game?

all right everyone, line up alphebetically according to your hight

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

Stengel admitted. “I’m not going to make any decision until I have to give the umpire my batting order. Then you’ll know as well as I.” The next afternoon, Casey resisted

Mister, that boy couldn’t hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.

To paraphrase Casey Stengel, the secret to life is to keep the people who hate you separated from those who are undecided. You can extrapolate a great deal from that. Stengel was a genius.

Is it too late, even at this stage in human history? No, it’s not too late, until, as Casey Stengel might say, until, it’s too late. Israel was healed on one occasion, as they cried out to God and repented as the Philistines were coming over the sand dunes to destroy them. America can still be healed. There’s hope that we can survive the evil plans of those who seek to destroy us as a nation. However, hope can only remain as a viable reality for a finite period of time. God is patient, but He’s not a doddering fool, forgetting what He has commanded, nor neglecting to enforce his justice.

The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.

Greg Goossen was doing his Casey Stengel imitation and he remembered the best thing the old man ever said about him. “We got a kid here named Goossen, twenty years old, and in ten years he’s got a chance to be thirty.