It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.
Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
You should always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise, they won’t come to yours.
You can observe a lot by just watching.
Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.
We made too many wrong mistakes.
The future ain’t what it used to be.
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
It’s like déjà vu all over again.
Pair up in threes.
We have deep depth.
Swing at the strikes.
I don’t mean to be funny.
It’s fun; baseball’s fun.
I’m glad I was in the Navy.
Take it with a grin of salt.
It gets late early out there.
I guess I’ve got a smart wife.
We were overwhelming underdogs.
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Texas has a lot of electrical votes.
What’s a Yogi-ism?
He learned me all his experience.
90% of the putts that are short don’t go in.
Never answer an anonymous letter.
A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.
All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
In baseball, you don’t know nothing.
It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.
He must have made that before he died.
I never said most of the things I said.
I didn’t know much about golf growing up.
If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him.
You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.
If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.
Thanks, you don’t look so hot yourself.
We’ve had enough trowels and tribulations.
Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?
When I was young and green behind the ears.
Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.
If I were playing alone, I would use my ball.
It’s pretty far, but it doesn’t seem like it.
I’d find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I’d return it.
What kind of bird is a cyst?
I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.
If you don’t catch the ball you catch the bus home.
I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.
The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.
I don’t like seeing myself on television. I don’t like it.
I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.
So I’m ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won 25 games. What I don’t understand is how he lost 5.
Cut my pie into four pieces. I don’t think I could eat eight.
I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
A home opener is always exciting, whether it’s at home or on the road.
If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.
What difference does a uniform make? You don’t hit with it.
The meat’s too tough and the horns get stuck in my teeth.
Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.
I never figured I’d go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
He can run anytime he wants. I’m giving him the red light.
Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn’t enough in the second half you give what’s left.
If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.
That’s his style of hitting. If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him.
I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
It’s never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn’t.
If we didn’t want to bring him up we might as well have let him stay down.
There are some people who, if they don’t already know, you can’t tell ‘em.
I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question.
I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
You don’t have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it’ll go.
I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
If I didn’t make it in baseball, I won’t have made it workin’. I didn’t like to work.
I’m lucky. Usually you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine.
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.
Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn’t something to shrug off.
I don’t know if they were men or women fans running naked across the field. They had bags over their heads.
I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better.
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.
Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren’t allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.
I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
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.
I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I’d start playing.
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.
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?
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.