256 Quotes by Casey Stengel

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.

They say it can’t be done, but sometimes that doesn’t always work.

You have to draft a catcher, because if you don’t have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.

If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.

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.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

I got one that can throw but can’t catch, and one that can catch but can’t throw, and one who can hit but can’t do either.

Because there’d be two languages I couldn’t speak, French and English.

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.