Subject: Yogi-isms (Page 4)

Yeah, what paper you write for, Ernie?

(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

Thank you for making this day necessary.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Little League baseball is a good thing ’cause it keeps the parents off the streets, and it keeps the kids out of the house!

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

So I'm ugly; I never saw anyone hit with his face.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

If you see the ball, hit it… that’s what it’s there for.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

He can run anytime he wants; I’m giving him the red light.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

This is like deja vu all over again.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia; let them walk to school like I did!

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

If you ask me a question I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they’re running.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

A nickel isn’t worth a dime today.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

He’s a big clog in their machine.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

We made too many wrong mistakes.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I’d say he’s done more than that.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager