Yogi Berra: Trending quotes (page 2)
Yogi Berra trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“It gets late early out there.”
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 27
Referring to the adverse sun conditions in left field at Yankee Stadium.
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Variant: It gets late awfully early around here.[citation needed]
“If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer.”
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 101.
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“If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.”
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 15
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“If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there.”
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes, Hyperion, 2002, ISBN 0786867752, p. 53
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 39
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Variant: You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going because you might not get there.
Variant: If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else.[citation needed]
Variant: You got to be careful if you do not know where you are going, because you might not get there.
“I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.”
The Yogi book: I really didn't say everything I said!, Workman Publishing, 1997, , p. 10.
Said on Yogi Berra day in 1947 in St. Louis. By his account, he asked a teammate to write a speech, and he misspoke, saying "necessary" instead of "possible."
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Variant: Thank you for making this day necessary.
“If people don't want to come to the ballpark how are you going to stop them?”
The Yogi book: I really didn't say everything I said!, Workman Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0761110909, p. 36.
The quote "If people don’t want to come, nothing will stop them" first appears in 1952, credited to music impresario Sol Hurok. It was first attributed to Berra in 1962. See http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/10/30/stop-em/
Disputed
“If you don't know where you are going you will end up somewhere else”
Variant: If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.
Source: The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said
“For a while, he was far better than the team around him, and he could give me fits..”
On Alex Kellner, the pitcher Berra claimed gave him the most trouble; as quoted in The Greatest Team of All Time: As Selected by Baseball Immortals from Ty Cobb to Willie Mays (1994), compiled by Nicholas Acocella and Donald Dewey, p. 13.
“I knew the record would stand until it was broken.”
The Yogi book: I really didn't say everything I said!, Workman Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0761110909, p. 91. Originally from a congratulatory telegram to Johnny Bench on breaking his record for home runs by a catcher.
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Speaking with teammates on July 12, 1949, during a pre-All-Star-Game clubhouse meeting, as quoted in Baseball is a Funny Game (1960) by Joe Garagiola; cited in "Point Blank" http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/69696307/ by Don Bryant, in The Lincoln Star (Sunday, June 5, 1960), p. 31.