Yogi Berra

“You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.”

“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'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!”

“Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life.”

“Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.”

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

“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”

“Texas has a lot of electrical votes.”

“Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.”

“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.”

“If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.”

“If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.”

“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?”

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

“You gotta call a blacksmith.”

“Buy a stock, if it goes up, sell it, if it goes down, don't buy it.”

“There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.”

“Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental.”

“Losing's a great motivator.”

“You can have everything you want as long as you don't want it badly enough.”

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

“The game is supposed to be fun. If you had a bad day, don't worry. You can't expect to get a hit every game.”

“Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.”

“Little things are big.”

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

“Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.”

“Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is.”

“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.”

“You can tell a lot just by looking at it.”

“I've always felt real blessed, especially to live in this country. If you dream hard and work hard, anything can happen here-I'm perfect proof.”

“It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.”

“If my father was alive to hear that, he'd turn over in his grave.”

“I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.”

“If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.”

“Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.”

“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.”

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

“I can't concentrate when I'm thinking.”

“You can get old pretty young if you don'ttake care of yourself.”

“Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.”

“I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.”

“I don't mean to be funny.”

“The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”

“Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in.”

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

“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.”

“I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.”

“I guess I've got a smart wife.”

“I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.”

“We made too many wrong mistakes.”