Zitate und Sprüche von Casey Stengel

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

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.

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

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.

So the guy who shot Gadhafi was wearing a Yankees cap. Did you see that? If he'd had a Boston Red Sox hat on he probably would have missed.

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.

I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees.

There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo and get a Yankees hat.

New York! Home of the Mets, the Chrysler Building, those ladies from Sex and the City and now, the zombie apocalypse. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere - but first, you have to not get eaten.

Barney: "I am not a smoker. I only smoke in certain situations: Post-coital, when I'm with Germans, sometimes those two overlap, coital, birthdays, to annoy my mom, pre-coital, on a sailboat, the day the Mets are mathematically eliminated every year, and of course - wait for it - 'cause lord knows I have, pregnancy scares."
Ted: "Why are you smoking right now?"
Barney: "I'm always pre-coital, Ted."

Baseball is more than a sport, it's what drives me.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.

I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.

My style is I work hard at it. I feel like I'm prepared every day.

You win a championship, and you feel 7 feet tall.

That's what I love about baseball, that it gives the opportunity for every single guy to develop and play the game. There's not a rule that you have to be 6 foot or you have to be real strong to play baseball or to become a good player.

I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

I just want to play baseball.

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

I do everything in a straightforward manner.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

Beast Mode doesn't make excuses. It doesn't complain. Whatever you're doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.