Subject: Yogi-isms (Page 3)

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 don’t remember leaving, so I guess we didn’t go.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

Third [base] ain't so bad if nothin' is hit to you.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(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

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

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I think they just got through marinating the greens.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

It’s not too far; it just seems like it is.

(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

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I used to look like this when I was young and now I still do.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Think?… how the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

We have a good time together, even when we’re not together

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I’d say he’s done more than that.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

It was pretty good… even the music was nice.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager