CASEY STENGEL

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.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

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

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

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

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

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

Without losers, where would the winners be?

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

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

If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.