Yogi-isms
Yogi Berra, one of baseball's both greatest catchers and characters, passed away yesterday. He was a member of 10 Yankees championship teams as well as a manager to both Yankees and Mets World Series teams. He was also the inspiration for the cartoon character Yogi Bear, and the author of countless witty epigrams now known as Yogi-isms; which the Archive Gals can’t get enough of. Here are some of our favorites:
-“It ain’t over till it’s over.”
-“It’s deja vu all over again.”
-“I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4.”
-“Never answer an anonymous letter.”
-“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
-“You can observe a lot by watching.”
-“The future ain’t what it used to be.”
“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
-“It gets late early out here.”
-“If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.”
-“Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”
-“Pair up in threes.”
-“Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.”
-“Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
-“All pitchers are liars or crybabies.”
-“A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
-“He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.”
-“I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.”
-“I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”
-“In baseball, you don’t know nothing.”
-“I never said most of the things I said.”
-“It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.”
-“The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”
-“You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”
RIP Yogi! You will be greatly missed.
“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”