Thursday, September 24, 2015

Memorable sayings you can't help but remember

On Tuesday, the Baseball World said goodbye to one of its most prominent figures. Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra passed away at the age of 90, 69 years to the day after making his debut in 1946 with the New York Yankees.


Berra is well known for giving us one baseball's most famous quotes: "Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical."

The Associated Press provided us with some of his other witty sayings.


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 learning: “You can observe a lot by watching.”

On his team’s diminishing pennant chances: “It ain’t over ‘till it’s over.”

On the fractured syntax attributed to him: “I really didn’t say everything I said.”

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