Casey Stengel Quotes

I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.

I love second base.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

I pitched and I played the outfield.

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

Because I could throw so hard when I got to college, they made me a pitcher. If I had to it all over again, I would have stuck to playing in the outfield. I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.

I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

Baseball began early for me. When I was 5, my father took two Little League bats and put them on a lathe. He whittled them down and sanded the bats so they were the proper size for my brother and me. He began by throwing tennis balls to us. Eventually, we practiced hitting and fielding at a field near our house.

I'm really bad at baseball.

Hitting is not an exact science.

Different styles work for different guys... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup.

One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have.

If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!

Rich Folkers is throwing 'em up in the bullpen.

The best compliment I've gotten was being compared to Randy Johnson. We're both hard-throwing.

I'd rather him (Grover Alexander) pitch a crucial game for me drunk, then anyone I've ever known sober. He was that good.

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.

To be a star and stay a star, I think you've got to have a certain air of arrogance about you, a cockiness, a swagger on the field that says, "I can do this and you can't stop me." I know that I play baseball with this air of arrogance, but I think it's lacking in a lot of guys who could have the potential to be stars.

The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him... Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park.

Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.

Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with, and teaching your children.

If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.

Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.