Yankees Quotes - Page 2

• So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

  Yogi Berra

  Beauty, Baseball, Isms

  Quoted in Paul Dickson, Baseball's Greatest Quotations (1991)

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• 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?

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Change, Baseball

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• It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Summer, Baseball

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• He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Isms

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• The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Hilarious, Sports

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• I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

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• It gets late early out there.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Work

  Quoted in Sporting News, 7 Aug. 1971. Berra says in The Yogi Book (1998) that he was referring here to the difficulty of playing left field in Yankee Stadium in late autumn when "the shadows would creep up on you and you had a tough time seeing the ball off the bat."

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

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

  "Stay Sought-After by Connecting Better in Conversation" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2014.

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• The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees.

  Waite Hoyt

  Baseball, Jobs, Lying

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• Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

  Yogi Berra

  Broken Heart, Baseball, Congratulations

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.75, Workman Publishing

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• It's great to be young and a Yankee!

  Waite Hoyt

  Baseball, Young, New York Yankees

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• It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Business, Future

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• The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Winning, Two

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• Ninety percent of this game is half mental.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Games

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• It's like deja-vu, all over again.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Confusing

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Mean, Talking, Southern

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• I didn't really say everything I said.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Isms

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• You can observe a lot by just watching.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Photography, Vision

  Quoted in Dick Schaap and Mort Gerberg's Joy in Mudville: The Big Book of Baseball Humor Reflections (p. 185)

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• Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Yankees Baseball, New York Yankees, Yacht

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• I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee

  Joe DiMaggio

  Yankee Stadium, Famous Baseball, Want

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• Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Baseball, Steel, Funny Baseball

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 29 June 1958.

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• All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

  Dizzy Dean

  Baseball, Wind, Careers

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• My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Dream, Winning

  Derek Jeter (2010). “The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams”, p.21, Broadway Books

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, School, Kids

  "Yogi Berra: The greatest financial planner ever?" by Ric Edelman, www.cnbc.com. January 25, 2016.

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