Casey Stengel Quotes

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

In everything we do there's a winner and a loser.

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.

It's always good to go against your friends, especially when you come out victorious.

The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.

Winners celebrate and losers mobilize.

Competition is not going to kill us.

I'm sure a lot of players say it, but winning is almost so you don't lose. The thrill of winning is not as great as the pain of losing.

All my life, everything has been a contest.

I beat some of the best of the best, and I've lost to some of the best of the best.

Jay White has a great chance to make his name off of me. But I'm not going to make that easy.

I love winning, and I hate losing.

I love competing. I am so competitive. I definitely need to win because I hate losing. I am the type who if I know I will lose I won't compete.

Victory needs conflict as its preface.

It's a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It's easier, but it's not more comfortable.

What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty.

It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

A game is not won until it is lost.

In order to be the man, you have to beat the man.