Quotes by Yogi Berra

“In baseball you don't know nothing.”

“You give ioo percent in the first half of the game and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.”

“You guys are trying to stop Musial in 15 minutes while the National League ain’t stopped him in 15 years.”

“From the kids on the neighborhood Stag Athletic Club baseball team on the Hill. We went to a movie one afternoon, and there was one of those yogi characters in the picture. Coming out of the joint,...”

“What's wrong with readin' comic books? I don't understand this kiddin' about readin' comic books. When I get through with 'em the other players on our club borrow them from me. Nobody makes a fuss ...”

“I always know how Hutch did when we follow Detroit into a town. If we got stools in the dressing room, I know he won. If we got kindling, he lost.”

“Rock Hudson, I suppose.”

“Before the playoff game in a World Series with the Dodgers in Brooklyn, Casey Stengel said in the clubhouse, Well, this is it. Now who do you want to pitch? The 40 guys in the clubhouse shouted Ras...”

“Lopat was the cutest of the gang, the easiest to catch because he had almost perfect control of every pitch at different speeds. He made batters impatient. They couldn't wait for what looked so eas...”

“But it don't bother me. I never yet saw anybody hit the baseball with their face. Besides, I like to get kidded; that means they like me. When they stop kidding me, I'm in trouble.”

“My ambition is to hit .400 and talk 1.000.”

“I gotta shake hands with himǃ That's one guy I know I'm better lookin' than.”

“I dunno. This game is getting funnier and funnier. We do everything but punch 'em in the nose and here we are all tied up in the Series. We flatten 'em by scores of 16-3, 10-0 and 12-0 and we still...”

“Sometimes I think there must be two Yogi Berras. There is the one who grew up on the Hill in St, Louis, who's been playing ball for the Yankees for fourteen years, has a beautiful wife named Carmen...”

“People seem to find it hard to believe, but I'm a very serious person. It wasn't luck that I became a ballplayer. I never wanted to be anything else and I never considered anything else and I worke...”

“Look, I was surprised when they offered me the job and I knew they weren't fooling, but this is not a joke. It will have to be fun for me to want to keep it, but I am not a joke.”

“For a while, he was far better than the team around him, and he could give me fits.”

“It's unbelievable that Phil had to wait so long to get in to the Hall of Fame. Maris's home run record in 1961 has become something of a curse. He wasn't just a home run hitter, he could do everyth...”

“Dickey's teaching me all of his experience.”

“I knew the record would stand until it was broken.”