Top 226 Quotes & Sayings by Yogi Berra - Page 4

Man was not made to travel faster than a baseball

If the fans don’t wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop ‘em.

A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.

Congratulstions on breaking my record. I always thought the record would stand until it was broken.

I don't know, I'm not in shape yet.

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

It was pretty good. Even the music was nice.

I hate to see it go, I'll tell you that. I played here all my life. Eighteen years I played here and I'm sorry to see it go.

Ok you guys, pair up in threes!

Ninety percent of this game is half mental.

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

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

I'd say he's done more than that.

Yeah? For what paper?

I take a two hour nap between 1PM and 3PM.

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

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

I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.

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

What difference does the uniform make? You don't hit with it.

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

It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain't over 'til it's over!

I've been with the Yankees 17 years, watching games and learning. You can see a lot by observing.

Why don't you pair'em up in threes?

In baseball, you don't know nothin'.

Third ain't so bad if nothin' is hit to you.

A nickel is not worth a penny more.

I didn't really say everything I said.

The game was two hours, with the commercials. I wish they did that now.

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

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

Its getting late early

He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light.

On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."

You gotta call a blacksmith.

I don't see how he lost five games during the season.

When I'm sittin' down to dinner with the family, stuff [another Yogiism] just pops out. And they'll say, 'Dad, you just said another one.' And I don't even know what the heck I said.

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

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

I really didn't say everything I said.

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

Records and achievements are made to be broken.

Bill Dickey learned me all his experience.

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.

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

What the hell is wrong with him now?