Subject: Yogi-isms

Yogi-isms:

Amusing unintended or unconventional, grammatical errors or misuse of words, phrases, pronunciation or vocabulary attributed to baseball player ‘Yogi’ Berra.

Overwhelming underdogs.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Yogi-isms

It ain’t the heat; it’s the humility.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Heat Malaprops Science/Weather Yogi-isms

This is like deja vu all over again.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Yogi-isms

It ain’t over ’til it’s over.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Sports Yogi-isms

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.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Yogi-isms

You don't hit with your face.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Appearance Baseball Yogi-isms

He must have made it before he died.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Entertainment Yogi-isms

I think greed is a terrible thing unless you are in on the ground floor.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Yogi-isms

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game; if that isn’t enough, in the second half, you have to give what’s left.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Sports Yogi-isms

In baseball, you don’t know nothing.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Sports Yogi-isms

Yeah, only in America could a thing like that happen.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Yogi-isms

Thank you for making this day necessary.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Yogi-isms

Little things are big.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Yogi-isms

How long have you known me, Jack?… and you still don’t know how to spell my name.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Yogi-isms

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Malaprops Yogi-isms

Shut up and talk.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Communication Conversation Speech Yogi-isms

Don’t get me right; I’m just asking!

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Yogi-isms

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Situations Sleep Yogi-isms

It’s never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn’t.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Sports Yogi-isms

I’m as red as a sheet.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Malaprops Yogi-isms

There are some people who, if they don’t already know, you can’t tell ‘em.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
People Yogi-isms