Casey Stengel Quotes

He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.

Uchimura is the greatest of all time.

Nobody else is Tiger Woods. Not on this planet.

Derek Jeter seems like a cool dude.

Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.

Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer.

No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.

I am now a legend. I am also the greatest athlete to live.

He (Roberto Clemente) is a hero to me.

Seeing Messi play is like watching a video game.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

Michael Jordan was a great individual and a great player. You can't say enough about what he brought to the game. He took the NBA to another level.

When you first hear about this guy (Stan Musial), you say, 'it can't be true.' When you first meet him you say, 'It must be an act.' But as you watch him and watch him and see how he performs and how he comports himself you say, 'He's truly one of a kind.' There will never be another like him.

Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.

A-Rod wants to be like Babe Ruth. And people don't realize this, he's a lot like Babe Ruth. Before the playoffs a couple of years ago, A-Rod went to the hospital and promised a dying kid he'd ground out to second for him.

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

[On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.

Legendary? I don't know. I'm just Serena.

Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived

I guess anytime you are mentioned with Hank Aaron, it is the ultimate compliment, not only as a hitter, but obviously, the great ballplayer that he was.

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

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.