Yogi Berra was America's professional baseball catcher who played nearly 19 seasons of Baseball for the New York Yankees. Born on 12 May 1925, in the United States, Yogi Berra was known as much for his malapropisms than his very fame in playing games. He, Billy Martin and Mickey Mantle were part of the young Yankee players and they stuck together. The following are few of Yogi Berra's famous quotes also known as Yogi-isms.
You can observe a lot by just watching.
We live in a very chaotic and fast running world where things get lost at times in conversions and misunderstandings. People have a perception that one can understand another by conversation and by spending time with each other. Even if it is not false, you can learn a lot about a person just by observation skills.
It's like déjà vu all over again.
Our life is made up of circles which keeps going on and on. From birth to death, and the time in between where we get educated, make money, get married, everything is a series of cycles, and we experience a sense of déjà vu mostly as if we have seen it somewhere earlier.
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Nothing is permanent in this world, and the only permanent thing is change. There is always an illusion which surrounds money, and its values are constantly shifting. Saving money is, therefore, more essential than investing it in some material wealth like cars or bikes.
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they will not come to yours.
At the end of the day, what we as humans crave for is love, affection and some attention. Small gestures of love you make will mean so much for another person. Make sure you are available for your loved ones when needed so that they will help you when you are in need.
We made too many wrong mistakes.
Making mistakes and learning from it is a part of the learning process, and as an optimistic person, we must look back, reflect what went wrong and where. Not all mistakes can be said as wrong as some may have a positive impact. However, when we make impulsive decisions, it may end up wrong.
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
Different people have various perspectives on life and look at things very differently. As far as eating something, there are a lot of things involved like calories and fat content. Body shaming a person who eats a lot is something that mistakenly normalized, but this quote proves it wrong in a positive way.
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
As the English saying goes, Failure is the stepping stone to success, if a person doesn't fail in his or her life there will be no great success at all. Beating a person down in competition will bring them the rage, necessity and want to win in life. This quote denotes healthy competition here.
How can you think and hit at the same time?
As far as any sport is concerned, we have to make precise decisions in a very short time very quickly. A player cannot spend a lot of time thinking about how to act in the field. He or she has to be quick, and it displays their quick decision-making capacity, which is very important in life.
The future ain't what it used to be.
Life was very easy then in the late '90s and early '20s. However, with the advent of technology, running after materialistic aspects of life, money mindedness we cannot envisage a happy future. A future one expects to live must be created by themselves, and they must be content with it.
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I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
Promoting healthy competition is a concept that has to be taught to children from a very young age. If a person loses, there should be no hard feeling involved, and no one must fight for it. Instead, they must take the failure as fuel and work more to get better and go higher.
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going because you might not get there.
Planning things and implementing them as a person wants is the best way to plan the future and succeed in life. If a proper goal is set to lead a life, it must be appropriately implemented by fulfilling the required steps as it will help you to reach the goals.
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
The education system from the beginning till date is evolving and will continue to improve its standards as days pass by. No matter how advanced the system can get, the traditional method of education stands as the best and the ideal method to get children educated in.
Take it with a grin of salt
Yogi Berra is known for his Malapropism, which means producing a nonsensical utterance of a word making things funnier. 'Grain of salt is a popular malapropos of grin of salt which means take everything and situation with a minute disregard or doubt.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Theoretically speaking, Yogi Berra claims that there is very little to no difference between the something we learn and how we apply it in our day to day life. No matter how much we learn, we have to keep practising it continuously as it is important and it will make us gain experience.
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
Few things are given importance in our life like education, work, developing interpersonal relationships etc. Love also is an aspect; however, for men in general, sports and having fun is more entertaining and gives him happiness.
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Everyone will have certain life decisions to make, and it will be a surprise and a shock. It is best to pick the change and opt for something new as it will personally help them to grow. Such changes will come one once in a while, and it is advisable to grasp it as possible as you can.
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
As humans, we rarely understand the concept of uncertainty. We grow up in a culture where we are constantly under a microscope, and questions are always bombarded on us. It is totally okay to be uncertain and not know answers to every question that is asked.
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
The society we live in can be very toxic, harmful and hurtful spewing hate all over the place. Gossiping or spitting lies is also a toxic trait and usually, most of the lies spoken by others are not even true. This trait must be eliminated from our society.
I never said most of the things I said.
Humans are judged based on their emotions and how they act at certain experiences or situations. Reactions and expressions are something that comes because of outbursts cannot be counted as what the person really meant. Only when a person is calm and composed, they will mean what they say.
I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.
No matter how successful, happy and full you feel today, it is all because of a few people who took care of you when you were young, including your mentors, your well-wishers and family. It is important to remember them when you are successful and be grateful for their guidance.
Famous Yogi Berra Quotes and Sayings of All Time
Here are some of the best Yogi Berra Quotes and Sayings of all time:
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.
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Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.
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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
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We made too many wrong mistakes.
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Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded
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A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
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You can observe a lot just by watching.
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If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
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If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.
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No, I don't go to that restaurant anymore. No body goes there. It's too crowded.
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It ain't over 'til it's over.
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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's left.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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Toots Shore's restaurant is so crowded nobody goes there anymore.
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The game isn't over until it's over.
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In baseball you don't know nothing.
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When asked what he would do if he found a million dollars: "I would try to find the person that lost it and if he was poor - I'd give it back."
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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.
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Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.
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You can't think and hit at the same time.
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Ninety per cent of this game is half-mental.
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I want to thank everybody who made this day necessary.
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Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
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I don't mean to be funny.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
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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?
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You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
Conclusion
Overall, these are a few of Yogi Berra's famous quotes on Teamwork, Leadership, Life and Change.which constitutes the Yogi-isms. These quotes will be forever etched in the minds and hearts of people.
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Co-author: Akshaya Saravana Kumar
Akshaya is currently pursuing Masters in English Literature. She is an avid reader, an animal lover and a movie freak. She loves to spend her past time travelling to strange places in different time zones with her imagination and fall in love with fictional characters.
