Author: ‘Yogi' Berra Page 2

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

I’d say he’s done more than that.

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

You don’t look so hot yourself.

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

Overwhelming underdogs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you ask me a question I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.

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

I made a wrong mistake.

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

Yeah, what paper you write for, Ernie?

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

I didn’t really say everything I said.

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

I’m as red as a sheet.

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

Never answer an anonymous letter.

(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

Most of his home runs were hit on artificial turf.

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

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

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

I wish I had an answer to that, because I’m tired of answering that question.

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

If you see the ball, hit it… that’s what it’s there for.

(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

I don’t know if it’s good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto!

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