Casey Stengel Quotes

My entire life, people have told me that I couldn't do certain things. They told me I couldn't go to college. They told me I couldn't go to Yale, Georgetown, couldn't end up doing much on Capitol Hill. Couldn't be party chair. And my response has always been, 'Watch me.'

I've experienced a lot of successes. I've experienced a lot of failures. I've been able to get back up on my feet and keep going.

I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

There will be ups, there will be downs, there will be sideways. I can just tell you I have been hired, I have been fired, I have been lauded, I have been vilified. I've said some of the most brilliant things that just by accident appeared on my tongue, and I've said some of the dumbest things that you could imagine. But each day - even the day that I knew I was going to be fired - I looked forward to because I've always believed that tomorrow was going to be the best day of my life.

Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up. We never gave in. We never became bitter. We didn't hate. We continued to press on. And that's what we're saying: There are some ups, there are some downs, and when you're not down, you must have the capacity and the ability to get up and keep going.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next.

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.

No one thought I would be successful. Everyone thought I would fail. You have no idea how much courage it took for me to do this.

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

I've been through my fair share of highs and lows. Yes, I've been written off, and it amazes me, and it amuses me, also, when I'm written off by the press cause then I tell them that's just the lull before the storm. And every time I've been down, I've been down, never out. So it just makes me work a lot harder.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

We in China are convinced that it is the better half of wisdom not to accept failure ignominiously, but to risk it gloriously.

I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed.

I fail at things all the time. I'm always being told no. I just get back up and try again.

I like being the underdog. I like turning around and shutting people up when they tell me I can't.

Not many people get up after a setback or two. But those who do make the impossible come true.

We can take a 'It was hard to get there.' But we ain't taking no loss. We're going to win.

I'm not going to throw the towel in just because things are not going great for the first time in my career.