Casey Stengel Quotes

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

I wanted to go somewhere I could be more part of the team and where the coach really trusts me. At Schalke it wasn't really like that.

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

We have to look at our history and realize that if they pretend to be our friend it's because they've got something up their sleeve.

I'm a coach's coaching player. I like to be on the floor. So, if the coach tells me what to do out on the floor, I can get it done. I'm really comfortable being directed.

The worst situations in the world always start with the words, 'trust me.'

When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.

To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.

A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

I don't have bad relationships with my players. But I don't get into long conversations with them either.

Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.

The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.

I think a lot of people have had their eyes open, shocked that the team they thought they were on didn't exist, and that the games were not being played to win. I guess it's shocking to a lot of people.

Houllier couldn’t deal with players expressing any anger or questioning any of his decisions

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Everybody by your side ain't on your side

It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

You do know him, so that's a lame excuse." It was a lame excuse, but it was the best I had. "How do you really ever truly know someone?" Brit smacked her hands to her cheeks and she shook her head. "He's not a serial killer." "Speaking of serial killers, everyone thought Ted Bundy was a really charming, handsome man. And look how he turned out. Psycho." Jacob stared at me. "He's not Ted Bundy.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.

I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about.

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.