Philosophy

Lawrence Peter Berra a.k.a. Yogi

"If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."

"You can see alot by observing."

"A nickel isn't worth a dime today."

"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up somewhere else."

"Nobody goes there anymore it's to crowded."

"It ain't over until it's over."

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

"If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them."

"I didn't say the things I said."

"This is like deja vu over again."

"Ninty percent of baseball is mental, the other half is physical."

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

Interviewer - "Why, you're a fatalist!" - Yogi _ "You mean I save postage stamps? Not me."

Mr Lindsey - "You certainly look cool." - Yogi - "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself."

"I want to thank all those who made this night necessary,"

"I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early."

"You got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going because you might not get there."

"Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin."

"It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much."

Phil Rizzuto - "Hey Yogi I think we're lost." - Yogi Berra - "Ya, but we're making great time!"

"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."

" I couldn't tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on it's head."

"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"

"It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it."

On why NY lost the 1960 series to Pittsburgh " We made to many wrong mistakes"

" The future ain't what it used to be "

" It gets late early out here"

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