It’s easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that’s the hard part. — Casey Stengel

I got players with bad watches–they can’t tell midnight from noon. — Casey Stengel

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager…my response? Great players. — Casey Stengel

Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club. — Casey Stengel

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill. — Casey Stengel

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

I never saw a player who had greater promise. — Casey Stengel

The trouble is not that players have sex The night before a game. it’s that They stay out all night looking for it. — Casey Stengel

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

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. — Casey Stengel

I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball. — Casey Stengel

We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings! — Casey Stengel

You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls. — Casey Stengel

That kid can hit balls over buildings. — Casey Stengel

All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left–handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop’s head. — Casey Stengel

Amazing strength, amazing power–he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball. — Casey Stengel

You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right. — Casey Stengel

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up. — Casey Stengel

There comes a time in every man’s life and i’ve had many of them. — Casey Stengel

I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all–time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing. — Casey Stengel

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else. — Casey Stengel

I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear. — Casey Stengel

It’s high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living. — Casey Stengel

A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up. — Casey Stengel

You make your own luck. Some people have bad luck all their lives. — Casey Stengel

They say some of my stars drink whiskey. but i have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ballgames. — Casey Stengel

Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking. — Casey Stengel

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

We’re in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin’ aren’t hittin’. — Casey Stengel

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

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. — Casey Stengel

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire. — Casey Stengel

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

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. — Casey Stengel

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

I’m mad at him, too, for being out late. But I’m not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant. — Casey Stengel

Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can’t catch. — Casey Stengel

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

I was a left–handed dentist who made people cry. — Casey Stengel

Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases. — Casey Stengel

Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself. — Casey Stengel

I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave. — Casey Stengel

Most ball games are lost, not won. — Casey Stengel

All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field. — Casey Stengel

Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup. — Casey Stengel

The team has come along slow but fast. — Casey Stengel

You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field. — Casey Stengel

If you walk backwards, you’ll find out you can go forwards and people won’t know if you’re coming or going. — Casey Stengel

The trick is growing up without growing old. — Casey Stengel

They say you can’t do it, but sometimes it doesn’t always work. — Casey Stengel

You got to get twenty–seven outs to win. — Casey Stengel

Been in this game one–hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before. — Casey Stengel

If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I’m about to manage until I’m a hundred. — Casey Stengel

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

You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, ‘Can’t anybody here play this game?’ There comes a time in every man’s life and I’ve had plenty of them. — Casey Stengel

They said it couldn’t be done, but sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. — Casey Stengel

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two. — Casey Stengel

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

Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height. — Casey Stengel

Don’t cut your nose off yourself. — Casey Stengel

We’ve got to learn how to stay out of triple plays. — Casey Stengel