Casey Stengel Quotes

I've enjoyed being a baseball owner more because I've enjoyed owners being allowed to participate.

When you play hockey, you don't realize how much it takes to put a team together and the business people around the team, what they do to get the franchise to the next level.

Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.

The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side.

Captain Huston and myself have spent over $200,000 in strengthening the Yankees since we purchased the club. We paid $37,500 for Frank Baker; we paid $25,000 for Lee Magee, and we have got rid of a young fortune on other players who couldn't deliver the goods. And we have had some of the most frightful luck I ever heard of.

There is no primer for being an NFL owner. It is learn-as-you-go.

For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's - you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

When you're a general manager, you don't get to see every single player, so you have to rely on your scouts.

They fire coaches before players.

It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.

In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

I managed Dal Maxvill, and he's now our general manager. I managed Bob Gibson. He's a broadcaster. Tim McCarver. Bill White. Nellie Briles. He used to be a broadcaster. I tried to count them up one time.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

I thought that the Bulls were an undermanaged, under-operated team and that it could be a very successful franchise if run properly.

It's not only the things I want, football is a business and you know how it works.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

Gasperini works really well, if Inter picked him up, it is naturally because they had good reasons.

Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.

I was once in charge of the Dutch team - and then I was introduced to club football!

Teams buy players and change managers if they feel they need change at the club.

I understand very well that if you are a national coach, you want to use all the opportunities that you have to meet up with your team.

I'm the football manager of Newcastle, which is owned by Mike Ashley.