Goodbye Yogi

Berra-isms (colloquial expressions that lack logic) are now countless, and many of them are just attributed to Berra, even if he never actually said them. As he so perfectly put it: “I never said most of the things I said.”

What are some of your favorite?

No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.


If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them


I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.


It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

I didn't say half of those things I said.

When you come to a fork in the road... take it.

I remember in first and second grade trading my Yogi baseball cards. What a joy. Four or five kids with shoe boxes full of baseball cards. Getting your allowance and walking to the corner store and buying baseball cards. The excitement of getting a card you never had. Yogi was what defined a great deal of my youth. It was simple fun and excitement celebrating life with your heroes. A friend of mine in the early nineties sold his baseball card collection and put his daughter through college......my mother tossed my shoebox after I left for school......but I will always be thankful that she took me to see the yankees play and I got to see Yogi and Mickey play. What a wonderful life of innocence in the fifties and early sixties.

Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

A nickel ain’t wortha dime anymore.

Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.

I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

Never answer an anonymous letter.

The future ain’t what it used to be.