Yogi Berra (1925-2015) was an American professional baseball catcher, coach, and manager. He was widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB). Born Lawrence Peter Berra on May 12, 1925, in St. Louis, Missouri, he played the majority of his career with the New York Yankees.

Yogi Berra won a remarkable 10 World Series championships as a player with the Yankees, establishing himself as a key figure in the team’s success during the 1940s and 1950s. He was known for his exceptional catching abilities, as well as his humorous and often perplexing statements, which became known as “Yogi-isms.” These sayings were often unintentional but displayed a unique and humorous perspective on life and baseball.

After his playing career, Yogi Berra went on to become a successful manager, leading both the New York Yankees and the New York Mets. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972, recognizing his contributions to the sport both as a player and a manager. Yogi Berra remains a beloved and iconic figure in the history of baseball.

Yogi Berra Quotes

1. “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”
— Yogi Berra

2. “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
— Yogi Berra

3. “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”
— Yogi Berra

4. “Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.”
— Yogi Berra

5. “Doing the little things can make a big difference.”
— Yogi Berra

6. “It’s like deja-vu, all over again.”
— Yogi Berra

7. “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
— Yogi Berra

8. “You can observe a lot just by watching.”
— Yogi Berra

9. “The future ain’t what it used to be.”
— Yogi Berra

10. “If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be. ”
— Yogi Berra

11. “You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.”
— Yogi Berra

12. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
— Yogi Berra

13. “90% of the game is half mental.”
— Yogi Berra

14. “Keep trying. Stay humble, Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
— Yogi Berra

15. “Make a game plan and stick to it. Unless it’s not working.”
— Yogi Berra

16. “That’s too coincidental to be a coincidence.”
— Yogi Berra

17. “If you don’t set goals, you can’t regret not reaching them.”
— Yogi Berra

18. “Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is.”
— Yogi Berra

19. “Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.”
— Yogi Berra

20. “We made too many wrong mistakes.”
— Yogi Berra

21. “Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.”
— Yogi Berra

22. “Nobody comes here anymore, it’s too crowded.”
— Yogi Berra

23. “We’re lost, but we’re making good time.”
— Yogi Berra

24. “If I had to do it all over again, I would do it all over again.”
— Yogi Berra

25. “I never said most of the things I said.”
— Yogi Berra

26. “Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”
— Yogi Berra

27. “Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.”
— Yogi Berra

28. “You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they’d do the same for you.”
— Yogi Berra

29. “You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.”
— Yogi Berra

30. “Deja Vu All Over Again.”
— Yogi Berra

31. “Its getting late early.”
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32. “Somethings don’t always work out the way you plan. The main thing is to keep trying, do better next time, and deal with disappointment if it comes.”
— Yogi Berra

33. “Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life.”
— Yogi Berra

34. “Prediction is very hard, particularly when it’s about the future.”
— Yogi Berra

35. “Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It’s also a powerful motivator.”
— Yogi Berra

36. “Failure is just another opportunity to start over.”
— Yogi Berra

37. “The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.”
— Yogi Berra

38. “I can’t concentrate when I’m thinking.”
— Yogi Berra

39. “Records and achievements are made to be broken.”
— Yogi Berra

40. “I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous.”
— Yogi Berra

41. “Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can’t understand it. It’s too complicated. That’s what’s so simple about it.”
— Yogi Berra

42. “I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.”
— Yogi Berra

43. “I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question.”
— Yogi Berra

44. “You can’t think and hit the ball at the same time.”
— Yogi Berra

45. “Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.”
— Yogi Berra

46. “Little things are big.”
— Yogi Berra

47. “Listen up, because I’ve got nothing to say and I’m only gonna to say it once.”
— Yogi Berra

48. “If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.”
— Yogi Berra

49. “If you’re feeling good, don’t worry. You’ll get over it.”
— Yogi Berra

50. “You don’t have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it’ll go.”
— Yogi Berra

51. “There are some people who, if they don’t already know, you can’t tell ’em.”
— Yogi Berra

52. “I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better.”
— Yogi Berra

53. “I really didn’t say everything I said.”
— Yogi Berra

54. “If I didn’t wake up I’d still be sleeping.”
— Yogi Berra

55. “It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.”
— Yogi Berra

56. “He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.”
— Yogi Berra

57. “Anybody who can’t hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.”
— Yogi Berra

58. “Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.”
— Yogi Berra

59. “It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.”
— Yogi Berra

60. “It was pretty good. Even the music was nice.”
— Yogi Berra

61. “Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.”
— Yogi Berra

62. “Pitching always beats batting – and vice-versa.”
— Yogi Berra

63. “Every time I see him, he’s not there.”
— Yogi Berra

64. “We were over-whelming underdogs.”
— Yogi Berra

65. “Swing at the strikes.”
— Yogi Berra

66. “He can run anytime he wants. I’m giving him the red light.”
— Yogi Berra

67. “If my father was alive to hear that, he’d turn over in his grave.”
— Yogi Berra

68. “I take a two hour nap between 1PM and 3PM.”
— Yogi Berra

69. “What a house – nothin’ but rooms!”
— Yogi Berra

70. “Well, I used to look like this when I was young and now I still do.”
— Yogi Berra

71. “Why don’t you pair’em up in threes?”
— Yogi Berra

72. “A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain’t got no place to put you. He’s going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don’t want to walk you.”
— Yogi Berra

73. “On why he no longer went to Ruggeri’s, a St. Louis restaurant: “Nobody goes there anymore because it’s too crowded.””
— Yogi Berra

74. “50% of all married people are women.”
— Yogi Berra

75. “I couldn’t tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on it’s head.”
— Yogi Berra

76. “Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.”
— Yogi Berra

77. “When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, ‘Four. I don’t think I can eat eight.’”
— Yogi Berra

78. “I love baseball, I really do. I always told my Dad, I’m not gonna make it working… I like to play ball too much. Which I did. I played hard. You gotta work at this game. You really do. And its fun doing it if you do it the right way.”
— Yogi Berra

79. “The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.”
— Yogi Berra

80. “I’m lucky. Usually, you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine.”
— Yogi Berra

81. “I’ve always felt real blessed, especially to live in this country. If you dream hard and work hard, anything can happen here-I’m perfect proof.”
— Yogi Berra

82. “Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.”
— Yogi Berra

83. “A home opener is always exciting, no matter if it’s home or on the road.”
— Yogi Berra

84. “If there’s one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it.”
— Yogi Berra

85. “Buy a stock, if it goes up, sell it, if it goes down, don’t buy it.”
— Yogi Berra

86. “Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn’t something to shrug off.”
— Yogi Berra

87. “It ain’t like football. You can’t make up no trick plays.”
— Yogi Berra

88. “How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don’t know how to spell my name.”
— Yogi Berra

89. “Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.”
— Yogi Berra

90. “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
— Yogi Berra

91. “I don’t mean to be funny.”
— Yogi Berra

92. “I guess I’ve got a smart wife.”
— Yogi Berra

93. “The game is supposed to be fun. If you had a bad day, don’t worry. You can’t expect to get a hit every game.”
— Yogi Berra

94. “When giving directions to Joe Garagiola to his New Jersey home, which is accessible by two routes: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.””
— Yogi Berra

95. “I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.”
— Yogi Berra

96. “If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.”
— Yogi Berra

97. “I enjoy now doing what I do… playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.”
— Yogi Berra

98. “The ballparks have gotten too crowded. That’s why nobody goes to see the game anymore.”
— Yogi Berra

99. “Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.”
— Yogi Berra

100. “If people don’t want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them? -Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book, to baseball commissioner Bud Selig about lagging baseball attendance Ninety percent of the game is half mental.”
— Yogi Berra