Berra Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is. — Yogi Berra

As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental." — Yogi Berra

What a house - nothin' but rooms! — Yogi Berra

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. — Yogi Berra

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

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house. — Yogi Berra

The future is not what it used to be. — Yogi Berra

You can observe a lot by just watching. — Yogi Berra

I didn't know much about golf growing up. — Yogi Berra

Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election] — Yogi Berra

Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early. — Yogi Berra

Economics is really about two stories. One is the story of the old economist and younger economist walking down the street, and the younger economist says, 'Look, there's a hundred-dollar bill,' and the older one says, 'Nonsense, if it was there somebody would have picked it up already.' So sometimes you do find hundred-dollar bills lying on the street, but not often - generally people respond to opportunities. The other is the Yogi Berra line 'Nobody goes to Coney Island anymore; it's too crowded.' That's the idea that things tend to settle into some kind of equilibrium where what people expect is in line with what they actually encounter. — Paul Krugman

Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded — Yogi Berra

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you. — Yogi Berra

I never said half the things I said. — Yogi Berra

I can't concentrate when I'm thinking. — Yogi Berra

I don't know. How hot is it supposed to be? — Yogi Berra

75% of baseball is mental the other half is phisical — Yogi Berra

If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it. — Yogi Berra

It should come as no surprise that Berra, or any athlete who makes it to the highest levels of sports, was unusually determined. But the brand of perseverance Berra, Shelford, Puyol, and the other Tier One captains showed is peculiar, even among the elite. The main point of difference is that their natural ability seemed to bear no relation to the size of their accomplishments. Something enabled them to set aside their limitations and tune out the skepticism from their critics. But what was it? What allows some people to press on until they achieve mastery? - — Sam Walker

Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile. — Marianne Moore

Every time I see him, he's not there. — Yogi Berra

Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore because it's too crowded. — Yogi Berra

A home opener is always exciting, no matter if it's home or on the road. — Yogi Berra

You've got to be careful
If you don't know where you're going,
Because you might get there. — Yogi Berra

Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life. — Yogi Berra

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it. — Yogi Berra

Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling. — Yogi Berra

Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working. — Yogi Berra

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. — Yogi Berra

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

How can a you hit and think at the same time? — Yogi Berra

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken. — Yogi Berra

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France. — Yogi Berra

If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work. — Yogi Berra

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face. — Yogi Berra

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. — Yogi Berra

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

Why don't you pair'em up in threes? — Yogi Berra

Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight. — Yogi Berra

90% of the game is half mental. — Yogi Berra

All pitchers are liars or crybabies. — Yogi Berra

Never answer anonymous letters. — Yogi Berra

You can't make anybody do anything, if they don't want to. — Yogi Berra

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. — Yogi Berra

Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do. — Yogi Berra

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience. — Yogi Berra

If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it. — Yogi Berra

We made too many wrong mistakes. — Yogi Berra

The only color I don't have is navy brown. — Yogi Berra

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. — Yogi Berra

If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot. — Yogi Berra

People say Yogi (Berra) is a strange guy, and I've heard Yogi say some funny things. But he has a beautiful wife, he's rich, and he's famous. I don't see anything strange about that. — Mickey Mantle

Ninety percent of this game is half mental. — Yogi Berra

Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training. — Yogi Berra

What makes a good man? — Yogi Berra

It ain't the heat, it's the humility. — Yogi Berra

I love baseball, I really do. I always told my Dad, I'm not gonna make it working ... I like to play ball too much. Which I did. I played hard. You gotta work at this game. You really do. And its fun doing it if you do it the right way. — Yogi Berra

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious. — Yogi Berra

On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded." — Yogi Berra

It ain't over 'til it's over.
-Yogi Berra — Wes Phelan

Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in. — Yogi Berra

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

I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come. — Yogi Berra

What the hell is wrong with him now? — Yogi Berra

Buy a stock, if it goes up, sell it, if it goes down, don't buy it. — Yogi Berra

Failure is just another opportunity to start over. — Yogi Berra

50% of all married people are women — Yogi Berra

80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in. — Yogi Berra

Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future. — Yogi Berra

You gotta call a blacksmith. — Yogi Berra

I enjoy now doing what I do ... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life. — Yogi Berra

We have deep depth. — Yogi Berra

You can observe a lot just by watching. — Yogi Berra

Little things are big. — Yogi Berra

I'd find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I'd return it. — Yogi Berra

We're lost, but we're making good time. — Yogi Berra

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer. — Yogi Berra

The game isn't over till it's over. — Yogi Berra

It ain't over 'til it's over. — Yogi Berra

He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch. — Casey Stengel

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. — Yogi Berra

The similarities between me and my father are different. — Dale Berra

Swing at the strikes. — Yogi Berra

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five. — Yogi Berra

It's not too far; it just seems like it is. — Yogi Berra

Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind. — Yogi Berra

It's 90% mental. The other half is physical — Yogi Berra

Records and achievements are made to be broken. — Yogi Berra

I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better. — Yogi Berra

It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't. — Yogi Berra

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. — Yogi Berra

The ballparks have gotten too crowded. That's why nobody goes to see the game anymore. — Yogi Berra

It was pretty good. Even the music was nice. — Yogi Berra

Doing the little things can make a big difference. — Yogi Berra

Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show] — Yogi Berra

Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success. — Yogi Berra

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine. — Yogi Berra

I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill. — Yogi Berra

Even Napoleon had his Watergate. — Yogi Berra