Yogi Berra Quotes

“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.”

“I don't know, I'm not in shape yet.”

“Swing at the strikes.”

“Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election]”

“It was pretty good. Even the music was nice.”

“The game isn't over till it's over.”

“I'd find the fellow who lost it [million dollars], and, if he was poor, I'd return it.”

“Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.”

“Cut that pizza into six slices instead of eight, I ain't that hungry.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.”

“I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”

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

“You can't make anybody do anything, if they don't want to.”

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

“You can observe a lot by just watching.”

“I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.”

“If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it.”

“You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.”

“Man was not made to travel faster than a baseball”

“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.”

“Nobody did nothin' to nobody.”