Casey Stengel
Casey Stengel
Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel, nicknamed "The Old Perfessor", was an American Major League Baseball right fielder and manager. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth30 July 1890
CityKansas City, MO
CountryUnited States of America
brave men talk
They are very brave men, the way they talk right up. Now if it was me, I would double-talk.
fall brave saws
He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out.
knew lose shown ways
They've shown me ways to lose I never knew existed.
You got to get 27 outs to win.
convention interested last listened night republican seen stayed watched
I stayed up last night and watched the Republican Convention all night long. I watched all of them talk, and listened to them and seen them and I'm not interested in politics. If you watch them and listen to them you can find out why.
ask english invited people speak talk
People ask me, 'Casey, how can you speak so much when you don't talk English too good?' Well, I've been invited to Europe, and I say, 'They don't speak English over there too good, either.'
cut later
A shave, please, but don't cut my throat. I may want to do it later myself.
famous game
That game was so famous they never used me.
happened kansas traded
Ain't that something what happened today. One of us got traded to Kansas City.
american-athlete guys hate managing secret
The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.
batting dangerous hitter walks
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice.
airplane walk weekends
Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
american-athlete happen three
Now there's three things that can happen in a ballgame: you can win, you can lose, or it can rain.
easy teams-and-teamwork together tough
It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part