256 Quotes by Casey Stengel

The best ballplayer’s the one who doesn’t think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.

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.

See that fella over there? He’s 20 years old. In 10 years, he’s got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he’s 20 years old, too. In 10 years he’s got a chance to be 30.

You can’t get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

There’s nobody on my ball club that doesn’t go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you’re taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter’s hand.

Even my players aren’t players.

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.

If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn’t you? Well, that’s how I feel about the Yankees.

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