Yogi Berra Quotes

“It gets late early out there.”

“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.”

“80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.”

“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!”

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

“Listen up, because I've got nothing to say and I'm only gonna to say it once.”

“Half the game is 90% mental.”

“You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.”

“Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.”

“Well, I used to look like this when I was young and now I still do.”

“The future is not what it used to be.”

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

“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.”

“Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.”

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

“If I didn't wake up I'd still be sleeping”

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

“I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.”

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

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

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

“We were over-whelming underdogs.”

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

“As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental."”

“In theory, practice should work like theory. In practice, it doesn't.”