-- “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.” About when a game should be considered lost.
-- “I want to thank you for making this day necessary.” Said after a ceremony in his honor while making a speech.
-- “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” Said after watching teammates Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle hitting home runs over and over again in 1961.
-- “When you get to a fork in the road, take it.” Berra insists that this is part of some driving directions to his house.
-- “I didn’t really say everything I said.” He was pointing out that he didn’t say everything that people think he said, which is very likely.
-- “Nobody goes there anymore because it’s too crowded.” Yogi said it regarding a restaurant that had become very popular.
-- “We have a good time together, even when we’re not together.” When he was talking about his wife Carmen.
-- “I thought they said steak dinner, but then I found it was a state dinner.” “It was hard to have a conversation; there were so many people talking.” About a fancy dinner at the White House.
-- “We make too many wrong mistakes.”
-- “Slump? I ain’t in no slump... I just ain’t hitting.”
-- “You can observe a lot by watching.”
--“It gets late early around here...”
--“A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
--“If I didn’t wake up I’d still be sleeping.”
--“I usually take a two hour nap from 1 to 4.”
-- “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll wind up somewhere else.”
-- “The future ain’t what it used to be.”
-- “If they don’t want to come, you can’t stop them.”
-- “Always go to other people’s funerals otherwise they won’t go to yours.”
-- “You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn’t enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.”
-- “Never answer an anonymous letter.”
-- “Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?”
-- “Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel!”
-- “Ninety percent of this game is half mental.”
--When asked what makes a good manager of a baseball team, he said, “A good ball club.”
--When asked what time it is, he said “What? You mean right now?”
-- When he was asked if first baseman Don Mattingly had exceeded expectations, Yogi said, “I’d say he’s done more than that!”
--His wife Carmen asked where he would like to be buried, to the reply “Surprise me!”
--He was told that he looked cool in his summer suit by the Mayor of New York’s wife, and he said, “You don’t look so hot yourself.”
And finally, one of my favorites:
--At a dinner in an Italian restaurant, Yogi was asked how many slices should be cut in his pizza, and he replied, “You better make it four, I don’t think I could eat eight.”
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