75 Casey Stengel Quotes From The Influential Baseball Manager

Casey Stengel (30 July 1891-29 September 1975) was famously known by name of Carles Dillon Stengel.

Throughout his five decades career, the Yankees have won 27 world series titles and 40 American League pennants. A former player known by Number 37, in 1932, he became a coach for the Yankees Baseball team and then a team manager before retiring in 1966.  

Stengel is known for his showmanship and misuse of the English language and sayings like Stengelese and was inducted into the baseball hall of fame in 1966. Stengel holds the record for the most world series wins by a manager, 37, and most series games managed, 63.

Stengel also popularized platooning. In this article, we will be looking at some of the best and inspirational Casey Stengel quotes. If you like this article, visit Bob Uecker quotes and Satchel Paige quotes.

Casey Stengel Quotes To Inspire

Stengel often performed clubhouse routines and practical jokes. Here are some Casey Stengel quotes to inspire you every day.

1."You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living."

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

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3."Never make predictions, especially about the future."

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4."The trick is growing up without growing old."

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5."Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out."

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6."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."

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7."They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work."

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8."Without losers where would the winners be?"

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9."I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways."

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10."Left handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side."

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11."Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits."

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

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13."I feel greatly honoured to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many."

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14."You make your own luck. Some people have had bad luck all their lives."

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15."I couldn't have done it without my players."

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16."You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field."

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17."If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going."

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18."You can't get into the hall of fame unless you limp."

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19."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."

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

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21."There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who ask, what happened."

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22."Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up the guy was 78 years old."

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23."If you're so smart, let us see you get out of the Army."

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Famous Casey Stengel Quotes

Casey Stengel was a great collector of memorabilia. He had a dream of developing a museum but it was not executed. Here are famous Casey Stengel quotes, including Casey Stengel Mets quotes, based on his experience of five decades in the baseball game.

24."The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three."

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25."Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose'em I never knew existed before."

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26."Can't anybody here play this game?"

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

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28."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."

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29."As great as other men were on the ball club, there comes a time when you get a weakness and it might be physical."

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30."The secret of successful managing is to keep five guys who hate you away from the four guys you haven't made up their minds."

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31."Alright everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height."

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32."The key of a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided."

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33."Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story."

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34."I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon."

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35."There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, you can lose, or it can rain."

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36."Managing is getting paid for home runs that somebody else hits."

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37."I'm a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice."

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38."Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful."

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39."You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it."

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

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41."The only thing worse than Mets is a Mets Doubleheader."

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42."Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of an umpire."

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43."I've got one who can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit harder but can't do either."

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44."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."

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45."I once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players."

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

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47."Do you know how good you have to be to strike out 2000 times?"

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48."Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might."

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

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50."He [Gil Hodges] fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two."

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51."He [Mickey Mantle] has it in his body to be great."

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52."I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry."

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53."Wake up muscles we're in New York."

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54."You have to have a catcher because if you don't, likely to have a lot of passed balls."

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55."When you're losing, everyone commences to play stupid."

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56."The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss."

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57."They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them."

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58."I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged because there was no question I had to leave."

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59."Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in a lineup."

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60."Nobody knows this but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City."

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

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62."What do you think, I was born at 60?"

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63."Most ball games are lost, not won."

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64."Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself."

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65."Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant."

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66."Two Hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among' em."

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67."Bobby brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one."

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68."If this keeps up, I'm about to manage until I'm hundred."

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Quotes About Casey Stengel

Quotes about Casey Stengel from other fans and followers.

69."He knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet."

-Sparky Anderson

70."I never saw a man who juggled his lineup so much who played so many hunches so successfully."

-Connie Mack

71."I'm probably the only guy who worked for Casey Stengel before and after he was a genius."

-Warren Spahn

72."It's fashionable to say that successful people, in any field, could have been whatever they wanted, but you could not picture Casey Stengel being anything else but what he was, the greatest showman baseball ever knew."

-Mickey Herskowitz

73."He can talk all day and all night, on any kind of track wet or dry."

-John Lardner

74."If I own Casey Stengel's oil wells, I wouldn't finish my sentences either."

-Birdie Tebbetts

75."They voted Casey the greatest living manager. That's a joke. The only thing a manager has to do is relate to the players. Who did Casey ever relate to? Nobody but himself."

-Jackie Robinson  

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