Quotes by Yogi Berra

It's fun; baseball's fun.

I don't mean to be funny.

When you're part of a team, 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.

He buys his roast beef, I buy my bottle of vodka. We get along real good.

Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical.

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

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

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

That's too coincidental to be a coincidence.

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

I'm glad I was in the Navy.

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

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

We were over-whelming underdogs.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

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

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.

Make a game plan and stick to it. Unless it's not working.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Never answer an anonymous letter.

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.

You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.

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!

Ok you guys, pair up in threes!

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.

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.

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.

What a house -- nothin' but rooms!

You gotta call a blacksmith.

What the hell is wrong with him now?

How come it rains every Hall of Fame weekend? They need to move it to a different weekend.

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

I don't know (if they were men or women running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.

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

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

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

Surprise me! Yogi's reply when he was asked by his wife, Carmen, where he would like to be buried.

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

I didn't really say everything I said.

But Little League can be a great experience for kids, as long as they want to play -- and don't play to bring their parents glory.

Ninety percent of this game is half mental.

Somethings don't always work out the way you plan. The main thing is to keep trying, do better next time, and deal with disappointment if it comes.

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

If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.

Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn't something to shrug off.

Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.

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

Pitching always beats batting -- and vice-versa.

Failure is just another opportunity to start over.

The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.

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

Its getting late early.

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

Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.

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

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

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

Swing at the strikes.

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

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

It ain't over 'til it's over.

I really didn't say everything I said.

I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.

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

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.

I never said most of the things I said.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

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.

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

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

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

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

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

It's like deja-vu, all over again.

If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

We made too many wrong mistakes.

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

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

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

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

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

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.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.