Subject: Yogi-isms (Page 2)

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

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

What the hell’s wrong with him now?

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

It was a dry rain.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

It gets late out there early.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

It ain’t the heat; it’s the humility.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

A nickel isn’t worth a dime today.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Shut up and talk.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I don’t think we’re the oldest battery, but we’re certainly the ugliest.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

George and I had our differences, but who didn’t?

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Don’t get me right; I’m just asking!

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

He hits from both sides of the plate; he’s amphibious.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

No, you didn’t wake me up; I had to get up to answer the phone anyway.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I guess that’s the earliest I’ve ever been late.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

A good ball club.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

He must have made it before he died.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

The only reason I need these gloves is ‘cause of my hands.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

If the fans don’t wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop ‘em

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager