The Best of Yogi Berra's Quotes with a Brief History.

Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (1925–2015) was an American professional baseball catcher, who later took on the roles of manager and coach. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (1946–1963, 1965), all but the last for the Mets in 1965, for the New York Yankees. He was an 18-time All-Star and won 10 World Series championships as a player—more than any other player in MLB history. Berra had a career batting average of .285 while hitting 358 home runs and 1,430 runs batted in. He is one of only six players to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award three times. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. The Yankees retired his uniform number 8 in 1972.

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Original 8" x 10" Photograph by the New York Yankees, 1946. "Rookie. This photo was taken in Spring Training of 1946. Note that Berra is wearing a 1945 Yankees pinstripe uniform.

Berra quit school after the eighth grade. He was known for his malapropisms[1] as well as pithy and paradoxical statements, such as "It ain't over 'til it's over," while speaking to reporters. He once simultaneously denied and confirmed his reputation by stating, "I really didn't say everything I said."

[1] A malapropism is the mistaken use of an incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound, resulting in a nonsensical, sometimes humorous utterance. An example is a     statement by baseball player Yogi Berra, "Texas has a lot of electrical votes", rather than "electoral votes." Malapropisms often occur as errors in natural speech and are sometimes the subject of media attention, especially when made by politicians or other prominent individuals.

46 YOGI BERRA QUOTES

1. "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."
2. "All pitchers are liars or crybabies."
3. "Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical."
4. "Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken."
5. "Even Napoleon had his Watergate."
6. "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."
7. "He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious."
8. "How can you think and hit at the same time?"
9. "I always thought that record would stand until it was broken."
10. "I didn't say the things I said."
11. "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?"
12. "I never said most of the things I said."
13. "I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house."
14. "I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question."
15. "If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's gonna stop 'em."
16. "If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be."
17. "If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer."
18. "If you come to a fork in the road, take it."
19. "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
20. "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."
21. "I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."
22. "In baseball, you don't know nothing."
23. "It ain't over till it's over."
24. "It ain't the heat, it's the humility."
25. "It gets late early out there."
26. "It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much."
27. "It's like deja vu all over again"
28. "It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't."
29. "It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it."
30. "Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets."
31. "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
32. "Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting."
33. "So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face."
34. "The future ain't what it used to be."
35. "The only color I don't have is navy brown."
36. "The other teams could make trouble for us if they win."
37. "The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase."
38. "There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em."
39. "We have deep depth."
40. "We made too many wrong mistakes."
41. "When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it."
42. Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked, "How many slices would you like your pizza cut into?" Yogi responded "Four. I don't think I could eat eight."
43. "You can observe a lot by just watching."
44. "You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours."
45. "You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you."
46. "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

Compiled by Neil Gale, Ph.D.