Casey Stengel Quotes

I played football. I was pretty bad at that.

I was born to play baseball.

I don't think I would have made it as a cricketer.

All I can do is play football, put it on film.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

You would not want me on your football team.

The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot and college ball and came to understand how difficult it can be.

One of the things I've learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

Baseball is not a grind for me.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

We play very fine schools on any given day.

Maybe I was an even better cricketer than a footballer.

Football is played by 11 players, and unfortunately, every time, it happens that some do well, and some do worse.

I love the game of baseball. Like I love playing, I'm just not good at - I don't enjoy the media part of it. I don't enjoy all the different aspects that come with it, like the business side of it.

In every position on the field, there's really strong competition.

I wish I was a great cricket player, but I am not.

The easy part, for me, is always playing my football.

Honestly, I just kind of play ball. I guess I'm pretty good in the state of Florida.

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

Everyone knows the game is about the players.