Casey Stengel Quotes

A hard-fought, well-fought, hairline-close game is as classical in sports as tragedy is in the theater. Victory is contained within defeat, and defeat is contained within victory. That's the way it is in the best of games. What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

It is tough, you don't want to lose games.

Every time you step out on that field, it's tough. There is no easy way to approach it and no short cuts out there.

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

You can be angry and pissed off at the coach and put your head down and pout. Or you can rise above it, respect the decision, but also know that you're going to go and work that much harder and prove everybody wrong. And that's the road that I chose.

how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.

Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes.

Our people were not happy. I knew at some point we were going to win. It's a little unfair, but that's the reality. To some degree, it became a one-game season for some folks.

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go.

When you play injured, you're still judged like you're 100 percent. You know you can't do all you want to, but you want to get back to help your teammates.

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.

At the end of the day, this is football, and it's quite normal for anyone to go through difficult moments - and it's something you can learn from.

I've always had to fight. Throughout my life, it's been a fight to get to where I am now.

For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.

I can play, it's not even a question, man. But, you know, sometimes you don't get in the game, man. What are you going to do? I'm not going to be upset; I'm going to support.

The team that wants it the hardest wins, but there have been times when I came out as the villain.

There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.