Author: ‘Yogi' Berra Page 5

After seeing the opera Tosca, Yogi remarked, “I really liked it, even the music was nice”

(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

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Shut up and talk.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

It was pretty good… even the music was nice.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I made a wrong mistake.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Don’t get me right; I’m just asking!

(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

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

A nickel isn’t worth a dime today.

(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

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

(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

I wish I had an answer to that, because I’m tired of answering that question.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Slump, I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager