Casey Stengel

“You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.”

“When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.”

“You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.”

“Never make predictions, especially about the future.”

“You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.”

“You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.”

“Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.”

“If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.”

“I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.”

“The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.”

“You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.”

“Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.”

“If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.”

“The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.”

“Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.”

“Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?”

“They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?”

“The trick is growing up without growing old.”

“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.”

“I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink.”