Subject: Yogi-isms (Page 4)

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I made a wrong mistake.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

In baseball, you don’t know nothing.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I think greed is a terrible thing unless you are in on the ground floor.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Why buy good luggage?… you only use it when you travel.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Don’t get me right; I’m just asking!

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I don’t think we’re the oldest battery, but we’re certainly the ugliest.

(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

He’s a big clog in their machine.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

He must have made it before he died.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(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

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I’m as red as a sheet.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I guess that’s the earliest I’ve ever been late.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager