Stengelisms

Stengelisms

1. The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I ever knew existed.
2. Mister, that boy couldn’t hit the ground if he fell out of a plane.
3. You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
4. Now there are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win or lose or it can rain.
5. Can’t anybody here play this game? (observing the hapless Mets that he managed)
6. Never make predictions, especially about the future.
7. Don’t drink in the hotel bar; that’s where I do my drinking.
8. All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
9. I was not successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of skill.
10. We are in such a slump that even the one’s that aren’t drinking aren’t hittin’.
11. A shave please, but don’t cut my throat. I may want to do it later myself.
12. The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.
13. Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who’s been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.
14. If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as good as we think we are.
15. Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
16. Look at him. He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t chew and he doesn’t stay out late – and he still can’t hit.
17. The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.
18. See that fella over there? He’s 20 years old. In 20 years, he’s got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he’s 20 years old, too. In 10 years he’s got a chance to be 30.