Quotes From Yogi Yet To Be Authenticated. These quotes have appeared on various web pages, but are not contained in Yogi's book and we have yet to come across any of them in our books of baseball quotes. If you have a source for any of these quotes, we would appreciate hearing from you. It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.
Yogi Berra quotes Showing 1-30 of 78 “Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.” ― Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes. Discover and share Yogi Quotes On Life. Explore our collection of motivational and famous quotes by authors you know and love. The Yogi Book is the New York Times bestseller filled with Yogi Berra’s immortal sayings, plus photographs, a career timeline, and appreciations by some of his greatest fans, including Billy Crystal and Tim McCarver. Yogi Berra's gift for saying the smartest things in the funniest, most memorable ways has made him a legend.
--Donald Honig, New York Mets'If Yogi had gone to college, they would have made him talk clearer, but not better.'
--Nolan Ryan
'Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.'
--A. Bartlett Giamatti, former Commissioner of Major League Baseball
Yogi Berra said a lot of things. But he didn't say all the things people said he said. Below are quotes of things he didn't say and quotes of things he did say. All quotes have been obtained from Yogi's book (Yogi -- It Ain't Over..., Yogi Berra with Tom Horton, 1989, McGraw Hill Publishing Company, ISBN 0-07-096947-7), or other books of baseball quotes. At the bottom of the page are the quotes which we have yet to authenticate.
First Of All, What Yogi Didn't Say
'Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.' (Sorry, but Rocky Bridges said this, not Yogi.)
'It's deja vu all over again.' (What a howler! Yogi never said it, Yogi says he never said it in his book, yet the clown who wrote the jacket notes of his book says he said it.)
'Always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't go to yours.'
'Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.' (This was in a telegraph that someone sent to Johnny Bench after breaking Yogi's record for most home runs by a catcher. The telegraph was signed Yogi Berra, but Yogi suspects it was a publicity stunt.)
'If we didn't want to bring him up, we might as well have let him stay down.' (Supposedly said about Craig Biggio when Yogi was with the Astros. What Yogi really said was, 'If we didn't want to use him every day, we might as well have let him stay down.')
'...Mt. Sinus Hospital...'
'Was that local time?' (Alleged by Jack Buck to have been asked by Yogi when told that Jack was getting to his hotel around 2 AM.)
'Like hell it was. It was a clean single to right.' (Allegedly Yogi's reply when told that a newspaper's report of Yogi going 2 for 4 instead of 3 for 4 was a typographical error.)
'We've had enough trowles and tribulations.'
'When I was young and green behind the ears...'
'Never answer an anonymous letter.'
'We made too many wrong mistakes.' (Yogi doesn't deny he said this. He said that won't deny that he said it because it gave him such a thrill when former president George Bush quoted Yogi as having said it.)
'If you come to a fork in the road, take it.' (Yogi is pretty sure that he never said this one.)
'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.'
'90% of putts that are short don't go in.'
Now, What Yogi Did Say
'Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.' (However, Yogi says he has since changed his mind on this subject.)'A little bit.' (Yogi's reply when asked if he really had confused Glenn Close, the actress, with Glen Cove, a suburb.)
'How long have you known me and you still can't spell my name?' (Yogi's comment after having received a check for $25.00 made out to 'Bearer' from Jack Buck in payment for having appeared on Jack Buck's radio show.)
'...contract lens...' (Yogi says this was a slip of the tongue.)
'For what?' (Yogi's reply when, while signing autographs, a woman called out, 'Hey Yogi, do you have a minute?'.)
'I don't have a ten.' (Yogi's reply, after thumbing through a large roll of bills that he pulled out of his pocket, to Joe Pepitone's request for ten dollars for breakfast.)
'He is a big clog in their machine.' (Yogi says this was another slip of the tongue.)
'I will get it when I die!' (Yogi's somewhat heated reply to a teammate in the clubhouse telling him that he was foolish for buying life insurance.)
'Look in my pants pocket and give him five bucks.' (Yogi's reply when told that the man was there to repair the Venetian blinds.)
'Even the music was nice.' (Yogi's comment about the opera Tosca.)
'Is he living? Is he living now?' (A question from Yogi during a game of 20 Questions.)
'...we were overwhelming underdogs...' (Yogi's comment to Nolan Ryan when talking about the 1969 Mets.)
'How did your's come out?' (Yogi's question after finishing a comic book one night to roommate/teammate Bobby Brown about the book he was reading (a medical textbook).)
'What kind of a bird is a cyst?' (Yogi's question when Joe Page told him that Enos Slaughter had said that he had been jumping in and out of the bushes so much looking for quail that he got a cyst on his back.)
'It's not too far, it just seems like it is.' (Yogi giving directions to Yogi Berra's Hall of Fame Racquetball Club in Fairfield, New Jersey.)
'Do you mean now?' (Yogi's response when asked what time it was by Rube Walker, the Met's pitching coach, while flying from New York to Los Angeles.)
'I know, Texas has a lot of electrical votes.' (Yogi's reponse to former president George Bush's remark that Texas was very, very important in the coming election.)
'You don't hit with your face.' (Yogi's standard reply to people who said he was bad looking.)
'What about him?' (Yogi's response to the prompt 'Mickey Mantle' when playing the Today Show Game (the announcer mentions a name and the interviewee mentions the first thing to enter his mind) after having been given a lengthy explanation of how the game was played.)
'Okay, who's in it?' (Yogi's reponse when asked if he wanted to go see a dirty movie.)
'If the guy was poor, I would give it back.' (Yogi's response when asked what he would do if he found a million dollars.)
'He must have made that before he died.' (Yogi said this about Steve McQueen while watching one of his movies. Yogi claims to have said this about Jeff Chandler and some other actors, too.)
'Yeah, only in America can a thing like this happen.' (Yogi's comment on a Jewish mayor being elected in Dublin, Ireland.)
'You don't look so hot yourself.' (Yogi's reply to then New York mayor John Lindsay's wife, Mary, after she had told Yogi that he looked nice and cool.)
'If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.'
'George who?' (Yogi responding to the question, 'Do you like George?'. It is not clear from Yogi's book which George he is talking about. George Weiss, former General Manager of the Yankees, gave Yogi a hard time. And of course, Yogi refuses to set foot inside Yankee Stadium as long as the ballclub is owned by George Steinbrenner.)
'That's his style of hitting. If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.'
'Thank you for making this night necessary.' (Yogi's speech at Yogi Berra Night held for him by the St. Louis Cardinals.)
'I haven't seen him.' (Yogi's reply to a teammate when told that he was waiting for Bo Derek.)
'A home opener is always exciting, no matter if it's home or on the road.'
'I'm not in shape yet.' (Yogi's reply when, as a young player, he was asked what size hat he wore.)
'The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.' (Yogi's comment on the Yankee's chances in 1964.)
'If I were playing alone, I would use my ball!' (Yogi's heated reply when playing scramble golf and the other three players refused to use Yogi's drive.)
'What's a Yogi-ism?' (Yogi's question after being told by Phil Garner that he had used a Yogi-ism.)
'I've been doing a commercial for Linseed Oil.' (Yogi's answer when asked what he was doing after having made a Jiffy Lube commercial.)
'Yeah, what paper do you write for, Ernie?' (Yogi's comment when introduced to Ernest Hemingway.)
'Then I will use a Molitor 3.' (Yogi's comment when told his golfing buddies were using Ultra 2 and Top Flight 3 golf balls.
'Where is that coming from?' (Yogi's query when it started raining while he was sitting in the back seat of a friend's car.)
'Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting.'
'All pitchers are liars or crybabies.'
'...the meat's too tough and the horns get stuck in my teeth.' (Yogi turning down mousse for dessert while visiting Alaska.)
'Better make it four. I don't think I can eat eight.' (Yogi's reply when asked if he wanted his pizza cut into four or eight slices.)
'No, but I saw him.' (Yogi when asked if he had had an audience with the Pope.)
'Those guys make a pair. ' (Yogi's comment after seeing three of his players in the locker room wearing conehead caps. Incidentally, according to Yogi, Matt Galante, who went to St. John's for four years, didn't pick up on this for almost an hour.)
'No, ma'am, it's not even carbonated.' (Yogi's answer when asked if the word Yoo-Hoo was hyphenated.
'The game is supposed to be fun. If you have a bad day, don't worry about it. You can't expect to get a hit every game.'
'I can see how he won 25 games. What I don't understand is how he lost 5.' (Yogi's comment on Sandy Koufax.)
'They are not going to make them next year, so I am going to buy a Volkswagen or a foreign car.' (Yogi's comment to a friend regarding the fact that GM had stopped making the rear-engine Corvair.)
'Looks nice. I am thinking about a Vega.' (Yogi's answer when asked by friend Frank Scott if he liked the Afghan dog in the back seat of his car.)
'No, but I was scared.' (Yogi's reply when a reporter asked him if he were apprehensive during a 1973 playoff game won by Pete Rose with a 12th-inning home run.)
'I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.' (Yogi's answer when asked if he takes a nap before a night game.)
'What difference does the uniform make? You don't hit with it.' (Yogi's comment on becoming coach of the Houston Astro's.)
'It gets late early out there.' (Yogi's comment on the glare of the sun in left field at Yankee Stadium during the 1961 World Series against the Reds.)
'Closed.' (Yogi's comment when asked what he liked best about school.)
'It ain't over 'til it's over.' (Yogi's comment on the 1973 pennant race, as manager of the New York Mets.)
'You can see a lot just by observing.'
'Baseball is ninety percent mental; the other half is physical.'
'Swing at the strikes.'
Quotes Yogi Berra
'Are you a better bone fisherman or a flycaster?' (Yogi's question to Ted Williams as he came to bat, hoping Ted wouldn't notice that the Yankees had put the Williams Shift on.)
'A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.'
'If you don't catch the ball, you catch the bus home.'
'Dickey is teaching me all his experiences.' (Yogi's comment on learning catching from Bill Dickey.)
'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.' (Yogi's opinion of Rugerio's, a popular St. Louis restaurant where he had once worked as headwaiter.)
'If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you gonna stop them?'
'How can you think and hit at the same time?'
'I am ... happy to speak my words at the university graduation. A lot of people have been quoting me ever since I came to play for the Yankees in 1946. But, as I once said, I really didn't say everything I said. So now it's my turn. I want to give some of my famous advice to the graduates. First, never give up, because it ain't over 'til it's over. Second, during the years ahead, when you come to the fork in the road, take it. Third, don't always follow the crowd, because nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded. Fourth, stay alert. You can observe a lot by watching. Fifth, and last, remember that whatever you do in life, 90 percent of it is half mental. In closing, I want to quote myself again: Thank you, Montclair State University, for making this day necessary.' (Excerpts from Yogi Berra's commencement speech as delivered to the Class of 1996, Montclair State University.)
Quotes From Yogi Yet To Be Authenticated
These quotes have appeared on various web pages, but are not contained in Yogi's book and we have yet to come across any of them in our books of baseball quotes. If you have a source for any of these quotes, we would appreciate hearing from you.
- It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future
- I didn't say the things I said
- In baseball, you don't know nothing.
- You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going because you might not get there.
- It ain't the heat, it's the humility.
- 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?
- He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
All children know and love Yogi Bear. This is one of the most famous cartoons in many countries. Discover an impressive collection of Yogi Bear quotes. Most children know this cartoon per heart. If you want to make a memorable birthday card for your child, you should find a card with an illustration of Yogi Bear and insert one of the following yogi berra sayings. Your kid will definitely love it a lot!
Famous Yogi Berra Sayings
Ranger John Smith: [showing a “Do Not Feed The Bears” sign to Yogi] Read this sign.
Yogi Bear: [deliberately reading incorrectly] Uh, “No Smoking In The Forest”?
Ranger John Smith: You know what it says, Yogi, and it applies to *all* the bears, especially you!
Yogi Bear: Uh, yes, sir.
Hello, pic-i-nic basket.
Hello, Yogi.
How ’bout that. A talking pic-i-nic basket.
Ranger Smith: Yogi, that’s the problem, all the thinking! Hey, you know what would be great? If you didn’t think, if you could just be a regular bear; you know, sit in the woods minding his own business. But nope: you’re different, you’re SMART, and you have to spend your days being selfish and destructive while everyone else pays the price! I’m sure it’s never been enough screwing up my life. But this time, you had to go and bring down this entire park. So tell me Yogi, how smart are you now?
Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: ‘You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.
Yogi Bear: He’s turning this park into a boot camp, with me getting the boot.
You don’t often see Bear Grylls in a suit.
Yogi Bear: I’m so smart it hurts.
Boo Boo: Uh, you’re standing on the soldering iron.
Yogi Bear: OR IT’S THAT!
Yogi Bear and Boo Boo Bear Quotes
Boo-Boo Bear also appears on The Yogi Bear Show as one of Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters. He is a bear cub that always wears a purple bow. Yogi and Boo-Boo are friends, that’s why their dialogues become even more interesting.
Hey, how ’bout that. I go to sleep a bear and wake up an octopus!
(Muffled) Yogi Bear, will you get off me!!
Boo-Boo! As another famous bear once said, what are you doing in my bed?
Quotes Yogi Bhajan
It’s Spring, Yogi! It’s Spring! Yippee!
Yogi Bear: Shish-kaboob, Bob-Bob… I mean, shish kabob, Boo-Boo.
Boo-Boo Bear: What are you going to do with it, Yogi?
Yogi Bear: Down the hatch, but natch.
Yogi Bear: What the heck was that?
Boo Boo: I have problems with potato salad.
Yogi Bear: I’m so smart that it hurts.
They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?
He forgets, and I quote myself. I’m smarter than the average bear, hee-hee-hee-hee!
Famous Yogi Bear Quotes And Phrases From Cartoon
This collection of famous Yogi Bear quotes has been created exclusively for children. Kids love this cartoon so much and do not get tired to watch it over and over again. Surprise your kid by quoting his favorite character.
Boo-Boo Bear: But Yogi, the Ranger’s not going to like it.
Yogi Bear: What’s not to like about Robin Hood? I’ll steal from the rich and give to a poor bear: me. Stay here, Friar Boo-Boo.
[Yogi peeks through the window of a cafe]
Yogi Bear: A goodly bunch having lunch.
[He shoots an arrow through the window, spearing various items]
Yogi Bear: Shish-kaboob, Bob-Bob… I mean, shish kabob, Boo-Boo.
Boo-Boo Bear: What are you going to do with it, Yogi?
Yogi Bear: Down the hatch, but natch.
Well, she can have her tinsel world of make-believe. I’m headed back to Jellystone.
Ranger Smith: [to Rachel] Is he still filming?
Rachel: I needed more footage, so I told him to keep it rolling.
Ranger Smith: Then I can plug that into the video camera right up there. I just need a way to distract the guards.
Yogi Bear: I think we can take care of that.
Yogi Bear:
Boo Boo, you’ve tried to stop my brilliant ideas with common sense a thousand times. Has it ever worked?
Boo Boo:
No.
Yogi Bear:
Then… let’s go-go-go!
Anyone who’s ever tried to tangle with a teddy bear cholla knows there’s a whole lot more bear than teddy to it.
Funny Yogi Bear Ranger Smith Quotes
Do you want to entertain your child who is the biggest fan of Yogi Bear cartoon? Show the following funny Yogi Bear quotes and you will see your sweet child laughing a lot during the entire day.
[as Yogi and Boo-Boo fall from the sky in their plane]
Yogi Bear: Hang on Boo Boo!
Boo Boo: What do we do now?
Yogi Bear: Did you check the safety manual?
Boo Boo: It’s just a picture of us screaming!
[Both scream and flail their arms]
Yogi Bear: We have to deject, Boo-Boo!
Boo Boo: Don’t you mean “EJECT”?
Yogi Bear: Eject is up, deject is
[Both fall]
Yogi Bear: doooooooown!
Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can’t understand it. It’s too complicated. That’s what’s so simple about it.
Yogi Bear: He’s turning this park into a boot camp, with me getting the boot.
Cindy! I can’t believe it! Neither can I, sir.
But why? Why did you do it?
I don’t know. A voice inside my head kept saying: Take, Take. Take, take, take. Take, take, take, take, take, take, take.
Oh, no… not you, Cindy. If you would’ve done one wrong thing, I might believe it. But you’d have to convince me.
Ranger Smith: [showing a “Do Not Feed The Bears” sign to Yogi] Read this sign.
Yogi Bear: [deliberately reading incorrectly] Uh, “No Smoking In The Forest”?
Ranger Smith: You know what it says, Yogi, and it applies to *all* the bears, especially you!
Yogi Bear: Uh, yes, sir.”
Ranger Smith: Jellystone’s too important to give up on.
Yogi Bear Cartoon Quotes And Lines
If you work in school and you want to make your lesson interesting, you should use the following Yogi Bear quotes and lines. These quotes will entertain children and will definitely grab their attention to your subject. Make learning fun!
Cindy Bear: It’s the time for whispering sweet nothings in one’s ear.
Yogi Bear: Now that I can oblige.
Cindy Bear: Oh, Yogi.
Yogi Bear: Nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing. Nooothing. And because you’re such a good kid, here’s another nothing, for nothing.
Ranger Smith: We got a bear disturbance!
Ranger Jones: All units, lock the park! I repeat, lock down the park!
Ranger Smith: You know I’m the only other ranger here, right?
Ranger Smith:
Bears are supposed to avoid people, not run around stealing their food!
Yogi Bear:
I agree, sir. That’s why Boo-Boo and I would never disturb family pic-a-nics.
Who knows? Someday, there may be the sound of little bear feet! Runnin’ around the cave!!!
Yogi Bear: Kick it, Boo-Boo!
Boo Boo: Kicking it!
[turns on the radio to Baby Got Back]
You can’t fail if you never stop trying.
That’s insane, Lanier said. Not very. It’s politics.
Yogi Bear:
Just sit back and let Mother Nature carry us toward her own.
Boo Boo:
I think Mother Nature is kind of cranky today.