Berraisms

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Posted By: PASJD

Rather than continue the Cobb thread, I will pick up at the end and note my favorites. Speaking of a popular restaurant: "Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded." Asked whether he wanted his pizza cut into six or eight slices: "Better make it 8, I'm hungry." And my all time favorite, "I never said half the things I said." And just to make this on topic, has there ever been a finer Berra card than the 53 Bowman Color?

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

if you come to a fork in the road, take it.........

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Posted By: PASJD

There are a lot of Berraisms, but a few non-Yogi quotes that come to mind about baseball. Anonymous batter after taking three strikes against Walter Johnson complains to umpire, "The third one sounded low." Reggie Jackson on Tom Seaver: "He's so good blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch." Bill Lee, asked to comment on his impressions of the 1976 World Series after game two: "Tied."

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Posted By: hankron

When a reporter asked what he thought of the Buccaneer’s execution following a loss-- "I think it's a good idea."

"We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking."

On 41 year old kicker, Jan Stenerud-- "He may be the only kicker to kick and collect social security at the same time."

"Kickers are like horse manure. They're all over the place."

On this significance of experience-- "If you have everyone back from a team that lost 10 games, experience isn't too important."

"If a contest had 97 prizes, the 98th would be a trip to Green Bay."

"Statistics and records are baseball talk. They keep records like most times sliding into second base on a Tuesday."

"The only problem with doing the impossible is that everybody expects you to duplicate the impossible."

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Posted By: Mark Evans

I agree that the '53 color Bowman is Berra's best card. Same as to Whitey Ford. Mantle's is nice too, but I grew up a few years later so my earliest images of Mick are his '57 and '58 Topps cards. Still my favorites and can't choose between the two.

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Posted By: Josh

When Yogi's wife told him the people for the Vinetian blinds were at his house, he said "give them $5.00 from my wallet."

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Posted By: Honus3415

I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

So here's a '47 Tip Top and a '53 Bowman.

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Posted By: Josh K.

Im partial to the '50 Bowman myself:

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Posted By: Tim Mayer

but interest story, at least for me,,,

I was lucky enough as a boy to go into the lockerroom before a game...

berra was sitting in the middle of the room , totally naked , just wearing flip flops..on a steel stool...
he says " son, why don't you sit here and talk with me" I swear it scared me for years..beside how he looked,,so blubberly,,I thought it was so odd that he had no clue he was naked or didn't care...I can still see him in my mind today...crazy...wish I wasn't so freaked,,wonder what he would have said...

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Posted By: Paul

It's too crowded.

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Posted By: Todd

where, after the game on a muggy hot Florida day, a woman was surprised how refreshed Yogi looked. "Yogi, you look so cool!', she yelled. He responded "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself".

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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

Nobody's going to bump into Yogi at a MENSA meeting, but the guy is a class act.

He was always the best tipper at the country club where I caddied. It's amazing how a $20 bill makes a 15 year old think someone is a genius!

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

How could Berra be anything other than a great orator? He studied under the perfesser for years! You remember him?

"All right, everybody line up alphabetically, according to height" & "I couldn't have done it without my players" or "Good pitching will always stop good hitting; and visa-versa".

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Posted By: Dave

Never answer an anonymous letter

I usually take a two hour nap from one to four

It's deja vu all over again

You can observe a lot by watching

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be

Yogi on the 1969 NY Mets....." overwhelming underdogs "

On why NY lost the 1960 series to Pittsburgh " We made too many wrong mistakes"

The future ain't what it used to be

It gets late early out here

From http://www.yogi-berra.com/yogiisms.html

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Posted By: SteveDawson

while broadcasting Padre games in the 1970's including:

He called Randy Jones "The little lefthander with the Karl Marx hairdo"

Calling a hit, he said "Winfield slides into second with a standup double"

And after an opposing batter hit a deep fly ball, he said "Grubb goes back, hits his head against the wall, it's rolling toward second base!"


Steve