Yogi Berra Quotes

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

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I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

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Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn't something to shrug off.

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You can get old pretty young if you don't
take care of yourself.

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If you don't set goals, you'll never reach them. Or like they say in golf, if you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time. Take any player in the major leagues: I'd say just about everyone of them had a dream - a goal - to be a big-leaguer when they were kids. It wasn't an easy goal, but it was a reachable one, and that's important.

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You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.

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Before the payoff game in a World Series with the Dodgers in Brooklyn, Casey Stengel said in the clubhouse, "Well, this is it. Now who do you want to pitch? The 40 guys in the clubhouse shouted "Raschi!" so loud the Dodgers must have heard it across the way. That's what we Yankees thought of Raschi. What did Raschi have? He had a slider and a curve that wasn't too good, but what made him so rough was a fast ball that got them out. Funny thing about him was that he couldn't relieve as good as Toots Shor. The guy was built to finish what he started.

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To his teammates during a pre-All-Star-Game clubhouse meeting:
You guys are trying to stop Musial in 15 minutes while the National League ain't stopped him in 15 years.
On July 12, 1949

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What's wrong with readin' comic books? I don't understand this kiddin' about readin' comic books. When I get through with 'em the other players on our club borrow them from me. Nobody makes a fuss about that.

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But it don't bother me. I never yet saw anybody hit the baseball with their face. Besides, I like to get kidded; that means they like me. When they stop kidding me, I'm in trouble.

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Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting.

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

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Sometimes I think there must be two Yogi Berras. There is the one who grew up on the Hill in St, Louis, who's been playing ball for the Yankees for fourteen years, has a beautiful wife named Carmen and three boys, Larry, Timmy, and Dale, and lives in a nice house in Montclair, N. J. That's me. Then there's the one you read about in the papers who is a kind of a comic-strip character, like Li'l Abner or Joe Palooka. [...] I don't know that Yogi at all, because he doesn't exist.

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

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I looked like this when I was young, and I still do.

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Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.

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If people don't want to come to the ballpark how are you going to stop them?

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I really didn't say everything I said. [...] Then again, I might have said 'em, but you never know.

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Always go to other people's funerals; otherwise they won't go to yours.

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

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It was hard to have a conversation with anyone, there were so many people talking.

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You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.

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I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

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If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there.

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Lopat was the cutest of the gang, the easiest to catch because he had almost perfect control of every pitch at different speeds. He made batters impatient. They couldn't wait for what looked so easy to hit and they'd swing at his motion.

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How can you think and hit at the same time?
Variant: You can't think and hit at the same time.

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From the kids on the neighborhood Stag Athletic Club baseball team on the Hill. We went to a movie one afternoon, and there was one of those yogi characters in the picture. Coming out of the joint, one of the kids looked at me, started laughing, and said: "Hey, Berra walks just like that yogi in the movie." I've been Yogi ever since.

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Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?

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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

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