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Fun/Joke It Ain't Over Till It's Over - Yogi Berra

2012.07.07 15:40

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IT AIN'T OVER TILL IT'S OVER

Lawrence Peter Berra played Major League Baseball for 19 years for the New York Yankees.  He played on 10 World Series Championship teams, is a MLB Hall of Famer and has some awe-inspiring stats.  His name is consistently brought up as one of the best catchers in baseball history, and he was voted to the Team of the Century in 1999.  Amazing accomplishments aside, they probably aren't how you know Lawrence.

You know him as Yogi, a nickname given to him by a friend who likened his cross-legged sitting to a yogi.  Yogi is famous for his fractured English, malapropisms and sometimes nonsensical quotes.  He's closing in on 88, and there seems to be no end to his fan's love for him.  Here are about 42 Yogi Berra quotes that will make you shake your head and smile.


  • "It's like deja vu all over again."
  • "We made too many wrong mistakes."
  • "You can observe a lot just by watching."
  • "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."
  • "He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious."
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  • "If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be."
  • "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going because you might not get there."
  • Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."
  • "The future ain't what it use to be."
  • "I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house."
  • "Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets."
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  • On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded."
  • "I always thought that record would stand until it was broken."
  • "We have deep depth."
  • "All pitchers are liars or crybabies."
  • When giving directions to Joe Garagiola to his New Jersey home, which is accessible by two routes:
    "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."  

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  • "Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."

  • "Never answer anonymous letters."On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet:

  • "I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary."
  • "The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase."
  • "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."
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  • “You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.”
  • “In baseball, you don’t know nothin’.”
  • “How can you think and hit at the same time?”
  • Yogi Berra on seeing a Steve McQueen movie: – “He must have made that before he died”
  • “If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him.”
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  • Mrs. Lindsay, “You certainly look cool.”
    Yogi Berra, “Thanks, you don’t look so hot yourself.”
  • “I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.”
  • “Slump ? I ain’t in no slump. I just ain’t hittin.”
  • “It’s pretty far, but it doesn’t seem like it.”
  • “It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.”
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  • As a general comment on baseball: "90% of the game is half mental."
  • ” I couldn’t tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on it’s head.”
  • "It gets late early out there."
  • Carmen Berra, Yogi's wife asked: "Yogi, you are from St. Louis , we live in New Jersey , and you played ball in New York . If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?"
    Yogi's answer: "Surprise me."
  • "Bill Dickey is learning me his experience."
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  • "I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five."
  • "If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?"
  • "I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."
  • "It ain't the heat, it's the humility."
  • "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?"
  • "So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face."
  • "Take it with a grin of salt."
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    In the mean time, people said about Yogi Berra....


  • "He'd fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch." - Casey Stengel
  • "He seemed to be doing everything wrong, yet everything came out right. He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it." - Mel Ott
  • "They say he's funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?" - Casey Stengel
  • "Right now, (Yogi) Berra does about everything wrong, but Casey (Stengel) warned me about that. The main thing is he has speed and agility behind the plate and a strong enough arm. He just needs to be taught to throw properly. I know he can hit. I'd say Berra has the makings of a good catcher. I won't say great, but certainly a good one." - Bill Dickey
  • "Why has our pitching been so great? Our catcher that's why. He looks cumbersome but he's quick as a cat." - Casey Stengel
  • "Yogi (Berra) had the fastest bat I ever saw. He could hit a ball late, that was already past him, and take it out of the park. The pitchers were afraid of him because he'd hit anything, so they didn't know what to throw. Yogi had them psyched out and he wasn't even trying to psych them out." - Hector Lopez
  • "Yogi (Berra), I came up here to hit, not to read." - Hank Aaron in the 1958 World Series & an answer to Berra after being told to turn his bat around so he could 'read' the label and not break the bat.
  • "You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different." - Dale Berra (Yogi's son)
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