Casey Stengel Quotes

So many times through the course of a season you are defined by your backups. They have three players in [Kirk] Cousins, Niles [Paul] and [Bashaud] Breeland who may be better than the players that they’re replacing.

Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best.

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

One of the best players I've ever seen in my life! Spectacular on training!! Playing with him was a joy!

What Messi brings to a team, no other player can bring. Messi can break a match wide open.

I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw a side arm spitter right into his belly and he hit it into the upper deck.

I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is unbelievable. His stats are incredible. Strikes at goal, attempts on goal, raids into the penalty box, headers. It is all there. Absolutely astounding.

Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.

I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players

Kobe Bryant is the most talented player in the game today; he could do anything.

There is only one player who is doing things that I could never do - and that is Messi.

Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.

Even from when Lionel Messi was very young I could see that he was a great player. A lot of people spoke about him, and then when I saw him myself for the first time I could see the amazing quality that he had. I didn't teach him anything - he had enough quality himself.

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

I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.

I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that's what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now.

If I have to win one game, I’d have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.

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

I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."

I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.

A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers give him.

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split second to make up his mind if it's in or out or down or coming at his head, a split second to swing. To do what he did has got to be the most tremendous thing I've ever seen in sports.