Legendary New York Yankees player Yogi Berra dies aged 90 after fighting in D-Day, winning ten World Series and coining countless phrases.
1. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
2. You can observe a lot by just watching.
3. It ain’t over till it’s over.
4. It’s like déjà vu all over again.
5. No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.
6. Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
7. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.
8. Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.
9. We made too many wrong mistakes.
10. Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
11. You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
12. You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.
13. I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
14. Never answer an anonymous letter.
15. Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.
16. How can you think and hit at the same time?
17. The future ain’t what it used to be.
18. I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better.
19. It gets late early out here.
20. If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.
21. We have deep depth.
22. Pair up in threes.
23. Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.
24. You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.
25. All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
27. Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
28. He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.
29. It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
30. I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.
31. I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.
32. 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.
33. I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
34. In baseball, you don’t know nothing.
35. 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?
36. I never said most of the things I said.
37. It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.
38. If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.
39. I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) 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.
40. So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.
41. Take it with a grin of salt.
42. (On the 1973 Mets) We were overwhelming underdogs.
43. The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
44. Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
45. Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren’t allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.
46. You don’t have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it’ll go.
47. I’m lucky. Usually you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine.
48. If I didn’t make it in baseball, I won’t have made it workin’. I didn’t like to work.
49. If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.
50. A lot of guys go, ‘Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.’ I tell ’em, ‘I don’t know any.’ They want me to make one up. I don’t make ’em up. I don’t even know when I say it. They’re the truth. And it is the truth. I don’t know.
It ain’t over when it’s over. Yogi will live in my heart forever even when i die.
I wasn’t a baseball fan cause I never was.
Condolences to the Berra family.
One of the best ambassadors baseball or sports for that matter has ever had. RIP
Hated Berra. He got into the Hall of Fame feeding off the Cleveland Indians. And the Tribe had an excellent pitching staff
Boo Boo is in mourning. No wait…
Arguably the greatest catcher ever. Won ten world series and 3 MVPs. Took mediocre pitchers and made them great. Went 147 straight games at catcher without an error. Wow. Strong arm, great bat, outstanding defence, and managed pitchers like no other catcher ever.
Stengel said he could not have won those series “without his little man”.
A true legend. What was not to love about Yogi.
And almost never struck out, unlike tBench, etc., and players from this era. Only struck put about every twenty at bats. One year only struck out eleven times.
I bet the umps loved him. You need some help to do that.
In the 1950’s everybody knew Yogi. I’ve never heard a bad word about him. R
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SSS – lots of folks got into the Hall feeding off the Indians.
Come to think of it, the entire country has been involved in feeding off Indians. But that is another story.
“SSS – lots of folks got into the Hall feeding off the Indians. Come to think of it, the entire country has been involved in feeding off Indians. But that is another story.”
—-Llpoh
I was COMPLIMENTING Yogi Berra with my remark above. BTW, given your hatred of Andrew Jackson and a member of the Choctaw tribe, what do you think of the following?
By February 1814, a larger band of Choctaws under Pushmataha had joined General Andrew Jackson’s force for the sweeping of the Creek territories near Pensacola, Florida. Many Choctaw departed from Jackson’s main force after the final defeat of the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. By the Battle of New Orleans, only a few Choctaw remained with the army; they were the only Native American tribe represented in the battle.
SSS – there have always been sheeple.
I knew it was a compliment. I just pointed out a lot of folks in the Hall owe a debt of thanks to Cleveland. 😉
Actually, the Indians were very good during Berra’s heyday. Those 1954 Indians were outstanding: 111 wins! Wowza! (swept in the Series though).
“He epitomized what it meant to be a sportsman and a citizen, with a big heart, competitive spirit, and a selfless desire to open baseball to everyone, no matter their background,” Obama said of Berra
I don’t want to be picayune but this again shows what a strange man Obama is. He really knows almost nothing about America before he was born, wherever that was. Anyone who knows anything about baseball would know that the American League and, in particular, the New York Yankees, were slow to integrate. It wasn’t until 1955, under great pressure, that Elston Howard, was allowed to put on Yankee
pinstripes. Now I realize Yogi Berra did not run the New York Yankees and they Yankees had converted
Howard from an outfielder to catcher in the minor leagues, in part , to prevent them from having to put him on the team. Afterall, the Yankees had Berra and Howard was not going to bench Berra!
Also from Yogi “In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is”.
For the TBP Boomers, remember the 60s cartoon character “Yogi Bear”. Smarter than the average bear?.