Quotes from Casey Stengel

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

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?

Without losers, where would the winners be?

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The trick is growing up without growing old.

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.

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

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

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

I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.

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

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.

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

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.