Top 160 Yogi Berra Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him.”

— Yogi Berra

103. “You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn’t enough, in the second half, you have to give what’s left.”

— Yogi Berra

104. “A lot of guys go, ‘Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.’ I tell ‘em, ‘I don’t know any.’ They want me to make one up. I don’t make ’em up. I don’t even know when I say it. They’re the truth. And it is the truth. I don’t know.”

— Yogi Berra

105. “It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain’t over ’til it’s over!”

— Yogi Berra

106. “I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.”

— Yogi Berra

107. “Texas has a lot of electrical votes.”

— Yogi Berra

108. “What the hell is wrong with him now?”

— Yogi Berra

109. “You can’t win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.”

— Yogi Berra

110. “If you’re going to cheat, it’s better if you don’t get caught.”

— Yogi Berra

111. “No, I don’t go to that restaurant anymore. No body goes there. It’s too crowded.”

— Yogi Berra

112. “The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”

— Yogi Berra

113. “Never answer an anonymous letter.”

— Yogi Berra

114. “What makes a good man?”

— Yogi Berra

115. “You can’t make anybody do anything, if they don’t want to.”

— Yogi Berra

116. “Nobody did nothin’ to nobody.”

— Yogi Berra

117. “You gotta call a blacksmith.”

— Yogi Berra

118. “I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”

— Yogi Berra

119. “Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.”

— Yogi Berra

120. “Losing’s a great motivator.”

— Yogi Berra

121. “It’s fun; baseball’s fun.”

— Yogi Berra

122. “It’s not too far; it just seems like it is.”

— Yogi Berra

123. “The game was two hours, with the commercials. I wish they did that now.”

— Yogi Berra

124. “Yeah? For what paper?”

— Yogi Berra

125. “Thanks, you don’t look so hot yourself.”

— Yogi Berra

126. “Congratulstions on breaking my record. I always thought the record would stand until it was broken.”

— Yogi Berra

127. “Baseball player: “What time is it?” “You mean now?””

— Yogi Berra

128. “I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?”

— Yogi Berra

129. “How come it rains every Hall of Fame weekend? They need to move it to a different weekend.”

— Yogi Berra

130. “It was hard to have a conversation with anyone, there were so many people talking.”

— Yogi Berra

131. “Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.”

— Yogi Berra

132. “In baseball, you don’t know nothing.”

— Yogi Berra

133. “So I’m ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.”

— Yogi Berra

134. “The only color I don’t have is navy brown.”

— Yogi Berra

135. “I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.”

— Yogi Berra

136. “Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.”

— Yogi Berra

137. “It’s 90% mental. The other half is physical.”

— Yogi Berra

138. “Cut that pizza into six slices instead of eight, I ain’t that hungry.”

— Yogi Berra

139. “All pitchers are liars or crybabies.”

— Yogi Berra

140. “I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.”

— Yogi Berra

141. “Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.”

— Yogi Berra

142. “Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.”

— Yogi Berra

143. “I don’t know if it’s good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto!”

— Yogi Berra

144. “I’m glad I was in the Navy.”

— Yogi Berra

145. “I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.”

— Yogi Berra

146. “I don’t blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to ’em? More power to ’em.”

— Yogi Berra

147. “Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working.”

— Yogi Berra

148. “Third ain’t so bad if nothin’ is hit to you.”

— Yogi Berra

149. “It’s pretty far, but it doesn’t seem like it.”

— Yogi Berra

150. “I’ve been with the Yankees 17 years, watching games and learning. You can see a lot by observing.”

— Yogi Berra