Subject: Yogi-isms (Page 4)

It was a dry rain.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(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

You guys over there, pair up into groups of three.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I made a wrong mistake.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

How long have you known me, Jack?… and you still don’t know how to spell my name.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

(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

Yeah, what paper you write for, Ernie?

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

In baseball, you don’t know nothing.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

We’re lost, but we’re making good time.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Surprise me!

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

So I'm ugly; I never saw anyone hit with his face.

(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

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager