Author: ‘Yogi' Berra Page 2

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

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

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

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

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

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

Why buy good luggage?… you only use it when you travel.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
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

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

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

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

I don’t know if it’s good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto!

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

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

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

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?

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

Never answer an anonymous letter.

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

80 percent of the balls that don’t reach the hole, don’t go in.

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

Overwhelming underdogs.

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

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

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

I usually take a two hour nap from 1 to 4.

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

If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him.

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

This is like deja vu all over again.

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

90% of the putts that are short don’t go in.

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

Surprise me!

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

It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

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