Casey Stengel Quotes

Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?

American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.

If there's a runner on third with less than two outs, I clearly do not want to strike out.

It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.

Bases loaded and nobody out is a pretty impossible situation.

One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.

Hitting .400 is something you can do by yourself. But you have to rely on guys getting on base at the right time to drive in that many runs.

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

To me the most important thing was stirring things up and scoring some runs so we could win a ballgame.

Attacking is better than defending.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?

I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in.

I play baseball - 'The Show' - a lot. I'm pretty good at that. I go 'Road to the Show,' where you build your own player. I build myself when I used to play as a center fielder. Power, speed, stealing bases.

Anything I get offensively, just finish it.

Getting the rebound and going, that's probably the most fluid part of my game.

We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.

When you know that the offense isn't just predicated on one guy and that every movement you make gives you a chance to be a part of the action, to make you a weapon, it's empowering.

It's not always easy to come to the national team and be on the bench.

It doesn't matter if we get a hit, a walk, hit by pitch; just trying to grind out at-bats.

Having a relentless lineup full of professional hitters works on so many levels. It works in terms of pure baseball reasons: if you get on base, you're going to score runs.

Sometimes it is tough and frustrating to sit on the bench.

I wish I could go up every single time and have guys on base.

Depending on the point in the game and what's necessary, if you can deliver the play, whatever that is - heck, if it's a screen - and you get a guy open, and he scores a big basket for you, that gives me as much of a charge as anything.

Coming off the bench was an adjustment for me.