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Yogi Berra

  • "A lot of guys have that many all by themselves."

  • "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."

  • "All pitchers are liars and crybabies."

  • "Anybody who can't tell the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind."

  • "Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical."

  • "Baseball is the champ of them all. Like somebody said, the pay is good and the hours are short."

  • "Bill Dickey learned me all his experiences.'

  • "Boy, I'm glad I don't live in them days."

  • "Come over here and show me how to work this thing!"

  • "Congratulations on breaking my record. I always thought the record would stand until it was broken."

  • "Don't know, they were wearing a bag over their head."

  • "Dr. Zhivago, again. What's the matter with you now."

  • "Everyone I know drinks Miller Lite. And if they don't I probably don't know them."

  • "He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light."

  • "He is a big clog in their machine."

  • "He must have made that before he died."

  • "He was a hard out."

  • "How did yours come out?"

  • "I don't know if we're the oldest battery, but we're certainly the ugliest."

  • "I don't know. I'm not in shape yet."

  • "I don't see how he lost five games during the season."

  • "I got a touch of pantomine poisoning."

  • "I usually take a two-hour nap, from one o'clock to four."

  • "I want to thank you for making this day necessary."

  • "I wish I had an answer to that because I'm getting tired of answering that question."

  • "If the people don't want to come out to the park, nobody's going to stop them."

  • "If you ain't got a bullpen, you ain't got nothin'."

  • "If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."

  • "If you come to a fork in the road, take it."

  • "In baseball, you don't know nothing."

  • "In one of his salary disputes with George Weiss, Berra contended he would be named the league's most valuable player. `That isn't official yet,' Weiss said. `Some of the papers say there were players more valuable than you.' That didn't register with Yogi, who merely shook his head and replied, `I read only them papers which say I'm the most valuable.' "

  • "It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays."

  • "It ain't over 'til it's over."

  • "It could only happen in America.

  • "It gets late early out here."

  • "It was hard to have a conversation with anyone, there were so many people talking."

  • "It's deja vu all over again."

  • "It's so crowded nobody goes there anymore."

  • "Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets."

  • "Ninety percent of this game is half mental."

  • "So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face."

  • "The other teams could make trouble for us if they win."

  • "They asked me to take it for a year and see if I liked it. Sometimes I did and sometimes I didn't."

  • "Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?"

  • "Third ain't so bad if nothin' is hit to you."

  • "This ain't the way to spell my name."

  • "Wait a minute. These people came all the way from Texas."

  • "We made too many wrong mistakes."

  • "We're not exactly hitting the ball off the cover."

  • "Well, I used to look like this when I was young and now I still do."

  • "Well, who's in it?"

  • "When we followed Detroit into a city, we could always tell how Hutch fared. If we got stools in the dressing room, we knew he had won. If we got kindling, we knew he had lost."

  • "Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel."

  • "Why, they was as close as Damon and Runyon!"

  • "Yeah, for what paper?"

  • "You can't win all of the time. There are guys out there who are better than you."

  • "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."

  • "You guys are trying to stop Musial in fifteen minutes when the National League ain't stopped him in fifteen years."

  • "You guys make a fine pair."

  • "You'd better make it four. I don't think I can eat six pieces."

  • "You're never out of it till you're out of it."

  • "You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

  • -When told by Mary Lindsay, wife of then New York mayor John Lindsay, that he looked nice and cool. Although some claim that this never happened, Berra says it did.

  • A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

  • Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

  • Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.

  • Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical

  • Half this game is ninety percent mental.

  • He (Mickey Mantle) hits from both sides of the plate. He's naturally amphibious.

  • I didn't say the things I said.

  • I made a wrong mistake

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • If I didn't wake up, I'd still be sleeping.

  • If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's going to stop them.

  • If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them .

  • 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 theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

  • It ain't over till it's over

  • It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

  • It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

  • Little League Baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

  • Ninety percent of the game is half mental.

  • Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

  • Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is.

  • Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.

  • Slump ? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin.

  • Take it with a grin of salt.

  • That's his style of hitting . If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

  • The game isn't over until it's over.

  • This is like deja vu all over again

  • Tom Seaver: Hey, Yogi, what time is it? Yogi Berra: You mean now?

  • Toots Shor's restaurant is so crowded nobody goes there anymore.

  • We have deep depth.

  • We made too many wrong mistakes.

  • When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

  • When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.

  • Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

  • Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.

  • Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

  • You can observe a lot by just watching.

  • You can see a lot by observing.

  • You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.

  • You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

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