A true cultural legend and one of the greatest baseball players that ever lived just died. Rest in peace Yogi. We will miss you. In his honor, here are some of my favorite of his quips.
By Leonard Finkel
#Yogi Berra-isms Here are some of my favorites.
- When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- You can observe a lot by just watching.
- No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.
- Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.
- You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
- How can you think and hit at the same time?
- The future ain’t what it used to be.
- If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.
- You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.
- Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
- He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.
- It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
- I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.
- I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
- I never said most of the things I said.
- It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.
- If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.
- So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.
- If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.
- 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.