Yogi-isms
"If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."
one o'clock to four."
the park, nobody's going to stop them."
it when you travel."
think and hit at the same time?"
Hey Yogi, what time is it?
On being asked his cap size at the beginning of spring training:
On why the Yankees lost the 1960 series to Pittsburgh:
On Ted Williams:
On the tight 1973 National League pennant race:
On being told by the wife of New York Mayor John V. Lindsay that he looked cool despite the heat:
On Yogi Berra Appreciation Day in St. Louis in 1947:
On the American League situation:
for us if they win."
After receiving a check made out to "Bearer" for his appearance on Jack Buck's pregame show in St. Louis:
you still don't know how to spell my name."
Dale Berra, Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop and son of noted linguist Yogi Berra, on the comparisons being made between him and his father:
Asked if first baseman Don Mattingly had exceeded his expectations this season:
On the acquisition of fleet Ricky Henderson:
giving him the red light."
On a fancy White House dinner he attended:
there were so many people talking."
Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra:
your father; playing for Billy is like playing
for your father-in-law."
Reminiscing during a tv interview about New York Yankee battery mate Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series:
competition, and it still hasn't."
After Milwaukee Brewer manager Phil Garner told him that he had said a Yogi-ism:
After accepting an invitation to dine at the White House this week:
then I found it was a state dinner."
The Wisdom of Casey Stengel
"I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly
declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a
few days to correct that impression."
It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in."
the guys who are undecided."
On hearing that a rival manager was trying to win the pennant with just three pitchers::
but it don't always work."
On players who did not drink:
On winning the 1958 World Series:
On being asked how the Mets were doing:
They hit a ball to him yesterday, and he turned left, then he
turned right, then he went straight back and caught the ball.
He made three good plays in one. And Greg Goossen, he's only twenty
and with a good chance in ten years of being thirty."
On being asked about his future in the spring of 1965:
my age are dead. You could look it up."
To his excuse-prone Mets:
luck all their lives."
