Yogi Berra Quotes

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Yogi Berra Quotes

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. Yogi Berra   All pitchers are liars or crybabies. Yogi Berra   Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. Yogi Berra   Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. Yogi Berra   Bill Dickey is learning me his experience. Yogi Berra   Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. Yogi Berra   Even Napoleon had his Watergate. Yogi Berra   Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. Yogi Berra   He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious. Yogi Berra   How can you think and hit at the same time? Yogi Berra   I always thought that record would stand until it was broken. Yogi Berra   I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary. Yogi Berra   I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself? Yogi Berra   I never said most of the things I said. Yogi Berra   I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house. Yogi Berra   I wish everybody had the drive he had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field. Yogi Berra   I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question. Yogi Berra   I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary. Yogi Berra   I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. Yogi Berra   If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em. Yogi Berra   If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer. Yogi Berra   If you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra   In baseball, you don't know nothing. Yogi Berra   In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. Yogi Berra   It ain't over till it's over. Yogi Berra   It ain't the heat, it's the humility. Yogi Berra   It gets late early out there. Yogi Berra   It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. Yogi Berra   It's like deja-vu, all over again. Yogi Berra   Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. Yogi Berra   Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. Yogi Berra   Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting. Yogi Berra   So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face. Yogi Berra   Take it with a grin of salt. Yogi Berra   The future ain't what it used to be. Yogi Berra   The only color I don't have is navy brown. Yogi Berra   The other teams could make trouble for us if they win. Yogi Berra   The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase. Yogi Berra   There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em. Yogi Berra   We have deep depth. Yogi Berra   We made too many wrong mistakes. Yogi Berra   When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra   You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six. Yogi Berra   You can observe a lot by just watching. Yogi Berra   You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. Yogi Berra   You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. Yogi Berra   You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours. Yogi Berra   You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you. Yogi Berra   You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there. Yogi Berra         The New York Times     Did Yogi Berra Really Say What We Think He Said?   By VICTOR MATHER and KATIE ROGERS SEPT. 23, 2015     Yogi Berra relaxed on the field during Yogi Berra Day at Yankee Stadium in 1959. Credit Ernie Sisto/The New York Times    Did Yogi Berra really say all those things he said? Berra, who died at 90 on Tuesday, was one of professional baseball’s most famous figures, known as much for his memorable quips as for his excellence on the field. But the origin of many of these so-called Yogi-isms is murky — and some he never said at all.   Berra playfully acknowledged the twisted attribution over the decades, characteristically revealing nothing and everything in his responses. (“I might have said ’em, but you never know,” he once said.) In 1998, he published an aptly titled book on the matter, “The Yogi Book: I Really Didn’t Say Everything I Said.”   Here is an effort to untangle the beginnings of his most famous remarks:   “It ain’t over till it’s over.” By most accounts, Berra said this about the 1973 pennant race. Berra managed the Mets, who were in fifth place at the end of August but rallied to win the National League East. Berra did say “You’re not out until you’re out,” according to the writer Dave Anderson, who quoted Berra in a New York Times column when Berra was managing the Mets in 1974. The first time The Times cited the quote that endured was in 1982, when the Connecticut state attorney general candidate, the future senator Joseph I. Lieberman, attributed it to Berra. Over the years, Berra was also often incorrectly credited as saying, “It ain’t over till the fat lady sings.” “That’s one of the things that I said that I never said,” Berra told a Times reporter in 1998, when he was marketing his book on Yogi-isms.   “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Berra said this as advice to graduates in a speech at Montclair State commencement in 1996, although in a context that implied he had used it before. In a 1998 collection of his sayings, he reported that he had originated it when giving the baseball player and announcer Joe Garagiola directions to his house. The blog Quote Investigator found the quip in a newspaper from 1913, but Berra certainly popularized it.   “It’s déjà vu all over again!” Berra told the Times language columnist William Safire in 1987 that he never said it, but later in life was known to take credit for it. Quote Investigator found the line, not tied to Berra, in newspapers as far back as the 1960’s. The first Times reference to the phrase attributed to Berra was in 1985 in an editorial on the scandal over the French sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. Berra supposedly said this as he reacted to his teammates Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris’s hitting back-to-back home runs. “Makes perfect sense to me,” he said, decades later. In the same 1987 column by Mr. Safire, Berra declined credit for another widely attributed Yogi-ism: “Always go to other people’s funerals. Otherwise, they won’t go to yours.”   “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” For at least the past 40 years, Berra has been credited with this remark. Articles by The Times in 1972 and 1973 included it. Berra’s wife, Carmen, confirmed to Mr. Safire in 1987 that Yogi had said this about a popular restaurant, but provided no further details. The same bit, though, predates the citations to Berra, appearing in The New Yorker and elsewhere as far back as the 1940s.   “I can’t think and hit at the same time.” Early in his Yankee career, Berra said this to a coach, Charlie Dressen, according to a 1988 Times article.   “If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him.” Berra was quoted giving this advice to a young player who was trying to emulate the slugger Frank Robinson’s swing.   “Ninety percent of the game is half mental.” In his book, Berra took credit for this one. This quote is also sometimes rendered as “Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”   “I want to thank everybody for making this day necessary.” Berra was quoted as saying this in 1947, when he was a rookie with the Yankees and was honored at Sportsman’s Park in his hometown, St. Louis.