Casey Stengel Quotes

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

I love baseball. I have a huge passion to play the game.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

Baseball is a game of inches.

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.

When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.

One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.

Baseball is a team game.

That's the remarkable thing about baseball. The game has a way of having you scratch your head one minute and drive you crazy, and then the next, you're entertained beyond your wildest hopes. That's why it's the best game.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Baseball's what I do.

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.