Yogi Berra quotations – funny quotes from the baseball great, who passed away at the age 0f 90:
- A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.
- All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
- Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.
- Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
- Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
- Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
- Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.
- He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.
- How can you think and hit at the same time?
- 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.
- I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
- I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
- I didn’t really say everything I said
- I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.
- 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?
- I never said most of the things I said.
- I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
- I usually take a two hour nap from one to four
- I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question.
- If people don’t want to come out to the ball park, nobody’s gonna stop ’em.
- If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them
- If the world was perfect, it wouldn’t be.
- If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.
- If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
- In baseball, you don’t know nothing.
- In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
- It’s like deja-vu, all over again.
- It’s pretty far, but it doesn’t seem like it.
- It ain’t over ’til it’s over
- It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.
- It gets late early out there.
- It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
- Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
- Never answer an anonymous letter
- Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.
- Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.
- So I’m ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
- The future ain’t what it used to be
- The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
- The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
- There are some people who, if they don’t already know, you can’t tell ’em.
- We have deep depth.
- We made too many wrong mistakes.
- “What time is it?”……”You mean now?”
- When you come to a fork in the road….Take it
- You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.
- You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
- You can observe a lot by just watching.
- You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.
- You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.
- He must have made that before he died. — Referring to a Steve McQueen movie.
- “I’d find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I’d return it.’ — When asked what he would do if he found a million dollars.
- Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?
- I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.
- If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him.
- Once, Yogi’s wife Carmen asked, ‘Yogi, you are from St. Louis, we live in New Jersey, and you played ball in New York. If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?’ Yogi replied, ‘Surprise me.’
- I take a two hour nap, from one o’clock to four.
- You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn’t enough in the second half you give what’s left.
- 90% of the putts that are short don’t go in.
- “Texas has a lot of electrical votes.’ — During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election.
- ‘Thanks, you don’t look so hot yourself.’ — After being told he looked cool.
- ‘Yeah, but we’re making great time!’ — In reply to “Hey Yogi, I think we’re lost.
- ‘Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.’
- ‘How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don’t know how to spell my name.’ — Upon receiving a check from Jack Buck made out to ‘bearer.’
- ‘He can run anytime he wants. I’m giving him the red light.’ — On the acquisition of fleet Ricky Henderson.