For those of you not familiar with the great man, he was a legendary catcher with the New York Yankees and famous for his misquotes.
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
You can observe a lot by just watching.
It ain’t over till it’s over.
It’s like déjà vu all over again.
No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.
Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.
A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.
Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.
We made too many wrong mistakes.
Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.
I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
Never answer an anonymous letter.
Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.
The future ain’t what it used to be.
It gets late early out here.
If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.
Pair up in threes.
Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.
You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.
I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
I never said most of the things I said.
It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.
If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.
I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch.
The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren’t allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.
I’m lucky. Usually you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine.
If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.
A lot of guys go, ‘Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.’ I tell ’em, ‘I don’t know any.’ They want me to make one up. I don’t make ’em up. I don’t even know when I say it. They’re the truth. And it is the truth. I don’t know.