Yogi Berra Quotes

Buy a stock, if it goes up, sell it, if it goes down, don't buy it.

You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.

Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election]

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

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.

On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded."

I don't mean to be funny.

50% of all married people are women

If I didn't wake up I'd still be sleeping

Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental.

I really didn't say everything I said. [...] Then again, I might have said 'em, but you never know.

I couldn't tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on it's head.

The future isn't what is used to be.

What a house - nothin' but rooms!

You can't make anybody do anything, if they don't want to.

As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental."

Swing at the strikes.

The game is supposed to be fun. If you had a bad day, don't worry. You can't expect to get a hit every game.

Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Losing's a great motivator.

A home opener is always exciting, no matter if it's home or on the road.

Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]

If the fans don’t wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop ‘em.

Ok you guys, pair up in threes!

I hate to see it go, I'll tell you that. I played here all my life. Eighteen years I played here and I'm sorry to see it go.

If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.

I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.

A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.

I don't know, I'm not in shape yet.

Man was not made to travel faster than a baseball

I don't see how he lost five games during the season.

What difference does the uniform make? You don't hit with it.

I guess I've got a smart wife.

Its getting late early

Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working.

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

I didn't know much about golf growing up.

On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."

I don't know if it's good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto!

I take a two hour nap between 1PM and 3PM.

Third ain't so bad if nothin' is hit to you.

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

I don't know. How hot is it supposed to be?

Records and achievements are made to be broken.

When I'm sittin' down to dinner with the family, stuff [another Yogiism] just pops out. And they'll say, 'Dad, you just said another one.' And I don't even know what the heck I said.

The game was two hours, with the commercials. I wish they did that now.

In baseball, you don't know nothin'.

Bill Dickey learned me all his experience.

A nickel is not worth a penny more.

What the hell is wrong with him now?