Yogi-isms for Spring Training

[GolfSpy Barbajo]

As a lifelong Red Sox fan, it's my birthright to hate everything New York Yankee-related.  I maybe betraying my heritage, but I've found it impossible to hate Yogi Berra.  To honor the 2nd greatest #8 ever to play, here are some of the late Mr. Berra's best....

 

 

On his approach to at-bats: "You can't think and hit at the same time." 

 

 

On selecting a restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." 

On economics: "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore." 

 

On the 1973 Mets: "We were overwhelming underdogs." 
 

 

 

On how events sometimes seem to repeat themselves "It's deja vu all over again!" 

 

 

 

On baseball attendance: "If people don't come to the ballpark, how are you gonna stop them?" 

 

 

 

On a slipping batting average: "Slump? I ain't in no slump. ... I just ain't hitting." 

 

On travel directions: "When you come to a fork in the road take it." 

On pregame rest: "I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4." 

On battling the shadows in left field at Yankee Stadium: "It gets late early out there." 

On fan mail: "Never answer an anonymous letter." 

On being told he looked cool: "You don't look so hot yourself." 

On being asked what time it was: "You mean now?" 

On being given a day in his honor: "Thank you for making this day necessary." 

On a spring training drill: "Pair off in threes." 

On his approach to playing baseball: "Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical." 

On death: "Always go to other people's funerals. Otherwise they won't go to yours."

On watching a Steve McQueen movie after the actor's death in 1980: "He must have made that before he died."

On progress: "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

How many of these can be applied to golf?

[Jmikecpa]

Been in my office for years and signed by the man himself.

 

 

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[jbil8802]

Good stuff. Growing up in Jersey near the city I'm a lifelong Yankees fan. Love this post.

 

Barbajo with me as a Giants and Yankees fan you and I are like oil and water but I won't hold it against you lol

[Zeff]

Growing up a Yankee fan in NYC during the 60s and 70s Yogi was the man! Mickey who?