256 Quotes by Casey Stengel

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.

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

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

I couldn't have done it without my players.

They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera.

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

My health is good enough about the shoulders.

You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.