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
two fields legs
He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.
running baseball two
I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
two speaks-french yankees
Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.
baseball two ems
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
sports winning two
The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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.