Yogi Berra Quotes

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.

...Because it gets late early., (on why it's so tough to play left field in Yankee stadium.)

If the people don't want to come out to the park, nobody's gonna stop them.

It ain't over till it's over.

It's deja vu all over again.

No wonder nobody comes here; it's too crowded.

We have very deep depth!

We made too many wrong mistakes.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

Mrs. Lindsay - "You certainly look cool." - Yogi Berra - "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself."

Ninety percent of the putts that fall short don't go in.

Anybody who can't tell the difference between the sound of a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind. (Referring to an umpire who was deciding whether a ball was a home run or in play.)

Asked for the time, Yogi once said, "Do you mean now?

Little League Baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

I couldn't tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on it's head.

Yogi Berra on seeing a Steve McQueen movie: - "He must have made that before he died"

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

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

You better cut the pizza in 4 pieces because im not hungry enough to eat 6.

Finally, Yogi disputed that he had uttered all the malapropisms that had been attributed to him. "I really didn't say everything I said," Yogi said.

Roger Clemens Quotes

"I wish he were still playing. I'd probably crack his head open to show him how valuable I was." Roger on Hank Aaron, after baseball's home run king suggested that pitchers should not be eligible for the MVP award.

"I thought it was the ball." Roger, who apparently wanted to throw the baseball at Mike Piazza, on throwing a splintered bat at the Mets catcher.

"I could never come back and pitch against the Red Sox, so it would have to be in the other league." Roger, as quoted by Will McDonough of the Boston Globe

"I've thrown the ball well in post season play." Roger, after being beaten by Pedro Martinez in the 1999 ALCS, comparing his 1-2 record in 9 post season starts with Boston versus Pedro's 3-0 career during the playoffs.

"I think undercover [Red Sox fans] are going to be rooting for me, too." Roger, before being booed and taunted mercilessly by Red Sox nation at Fenway park during game 3 of the 1999 ALCS.

"I would only leave Boston to go back to Houston to be closer to my family." Roger, as quoted by Will McDonough of the Boston Globe

"I have all the nice thing in life because of the fact that [Red Sox owner] Mr. Harrington took care of me. I don't need a lot of money." Roger, as quoted by Will McDonough of the Boston Globe

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Casey Stangle Quotes

After his seventieth birthday, Casey Stengel remarked that "most people my age are dead at the present time."

"Look at him. He doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, he doesn't chew and he doesn't stay out late -- and he still can't hit."
(on second baseman Bobby Richardson)

Casey once went to the mound to pull his pitcher.
"I'm not tired," the pitcher said.
"Well, the outfielders are." Casey replied.

Casey once told a writer,
"I won't trade my left fielder."
"Who's your left fielder?" asked the writer.
"I don't know," Casey said, "but if it isn't him, I'll keep him anyway."

Quotes From and About George Steinbrenner

"It's a good thing Babe Ruth isn't still here -- George would have him bat seventh and say he's overweight."
-- New York Yankees third baseman Craig Nettles on owner George Steinbrenner

"I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all."
-George Steinbrenner

Other Quotes From and About the Yanks

"Going to a Yankee game for the first time is like waking up in a brazilian jail."
-- Umpire referring to what it's like at Yankee Stadium