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Over the years I have accumulated a few of my favorites, some of which were my own. Here are some I remember:
He came out of that deal smelling like a bandit.
He stood heads and toes above the crowd.
He will turn on you like a thin dime.
He is a sharp as a whip.
That was just the tip of the icebox.
I have more, but would like to hear some you have heard.
It's time to close the doors to the Temple of Janus.
Yogi was the best...
As a general comment on baseball: "Ninety percent of this game is half mental."
On why he no longer went to a popular St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there no more, it's too crowded!"
When giving directions to his New Jersey home, which was equally accessible via two different routes: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
"It's like déjà vu all over again".
"It's tough making predictions, especially about the future"
"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."
On a trip to Cooperstown, to attend a dinner, Phil Rizzuto commented to Yogi, "I think we're lost." To which Yogi responded "Yeah, but we're making great time."
When told by a queen visiting New York on a particularly humid day that he appeared "quite cool," Yogi innocently responded "Thanks; you don't look so hot yourself."
When asked if he wanted a personal pizza cut into 4 or 8 slices, Yogi responded with "Better cut it into 4, I don't think I could eat 8."
"It's not the heat, it's the humility."
"They could make trouble for us if they win" on the American League situation
"The future ain't what it used to be."
"We made too many wrong mistakes."
"If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be."
"I usually take a two hour nap from one to four."
"You can observe a lot just by watching."
"He must have made that before he died." -- Referring to a Steve McQueen movie.
"I'd find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I'd return it." -- When asked what he would do if he found a million dollars.
"Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?"
"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."
"I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early."
"If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."
"It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much."
"Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting."
"A nickel isn't worth a dime today."
"It gets late early out there." -- Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium.
Once, Yogi's wife Carmen asked, "Yogi, you are from St. Louis, we live in New Jersey, and you played ball in New York. If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?" Yogi replied, "Surprise me."
"Do you mean now?" -- When asked for the time
"You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left."
"90% of the putts that are short don't go in."
"I always thought that record would stand until it was broken."
"If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them."
"Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel."
"It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't."
"How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don't know how to spell my name." -- Upon receiving a check from Jack Buck made out to "bearer."
"I'd say he's done more than that." -- When asked if first baseman Don Mattingly had exceeded expectations for the current season.
"He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light."
"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?"
"The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase."
"Know anything? I don't even 'suspect" anything!"
"Bill Dickey is learning me his experience."
“He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious."
“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."
"In baseball, you don't know nothing."
"So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face."
"Take it with a grin of salt."
“We have a good time together, even when we’re not together.” - referring to his wife.
Thanks for getting me going this morning, Maddawg! Yogi is the best!
The sad part is I actually got what he was trying to say for most of them. What a legend!
She's been banged more than a screen door on a submarine...
He was faster than a pissing race horse!
Just be me and he would see for himself.
That has always been a thorn in the head.
We were eating with some friends one time and someone said, "You should throw a wrench into the monkeys."
Do if I do; do if I don't.
It's all water near a bridge - Kramer
She is one in a few.
It's time to close the doors to the Temple of Janus.
They were packed in there like sandwiches
It don't take much brains to be stupid. Tex Martin
WWDog
La Tech
Region and hyphen free since 1894!
Flagship of the University of Louisiana System
running around like a chicken in a pair of cutoffs.
we'll burn that bridge when we cross it.
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