Subject: Yogi-isms

Yogi-isms:

Amusing unintended or unconventional, grammatical errors or misuse of words, phrases, pronunciation or vocabulary attributed to baseball player ‘Yogi’ Berra.

Thank you for making this day necessary.

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

If you don’t set goals, you can’t regret not reaching them.

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

Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.

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

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

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

No, you didn’t wake me up; I had to get up to answer the phone anyway.

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

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

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

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game and if that isn’t enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.

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

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

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

It was pretty good… even the music was nice.

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

Little League baseball is a good thing ’cause it keeps the parents off the streets, and it keeps the kids out of the house!

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

Surprise me!

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

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
World 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

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

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

A nickel isn’t worth a dime today.

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

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

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

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

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

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
Baseball Sports Yogi-isms

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

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

Shut up and talk.

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

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

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