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
baseball thinking born
What do you think, I was born at 60?
thinking trying approval
The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
baseball thinking winning
If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.
sports thinking yankees
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
baseball thinking bigs
Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.
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.
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.'
You got to get 27 outs to win.
johnny matter nobody talk
Johnny Sain doesn't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.
american-athlete home managing paid runs
Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.
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.