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Failure Is Just Another Opportunity To Start Over.

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Failure Is Just Another

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Failure Is Just Another Opportunity To Start Over.

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So I'm Ugly. So What? I Never Saw Anyone Hit With His Face.

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.

Texas Has A Lot Of Electrical Votes.

It Gets Late Early Out There.

I Tell The Kids, Somebody's Gotta Win, Somebody's Gotta Lose. Just Don't Fight About It. Just Try To Get Better.

I Don't Know If It's Good For Baseball, But It Sure Beats The Hell Out Of Rooming With Phil Rizzuto!

I Just Want To Thank Everyone Who Made This Day Necessary.

The Other Teams Could Make Trouble For Us If They Win.

Its Getting Late Early

Somethings Don't Always Work Out The Way You Plan. The Main Thing Is To Keep Trying, Do Better Next Time, And Deal With Disappointment If It Comes.

He Can Run Anytime He Wants. I'm Giving Him The Red Light.

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Almost Every Monday I Have A Charity Thing. I Like That. I Do.

Congratulstions On Breaking My Record. I Always Thought The Record Would Stand Until It Was Broken.

I Don't Mean To Be Funny.

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!

I'm Glad I Was In The Navy.

Nobody Did Nothin' To Nobody.

I Take A Two Hour Nap Between 1pm And 3pm.

Bill Dickey Is Learning Me His Experience.

Every Time I See Him, He's Not There.

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I Can See How He (sandy Koufax) Won Twenty-five Games. What I Don't Understand Is How He Lost Five.

I Enjoy Now Doing What I Do... Playing Golf, Relaxing A Little, Enjoying Life.

In Baseball, You Don't Know Nothing.

It Ain't Over 'til It's Over.

If You Don't Set Goals, You'll Never Reach Them. Or Like They Say In Golf, If You Aim For Nothing, You'll Hit It Every Time. Take Any Player In The Major Leagues: I'd Say Just About Everyone Of Them Had A Dream - A Goal - To Be A Big-leaguer When They Were Kids. It Wasn't An Easy Goal, But It Was A Reachable One, And That's Important.

Slump? I Ain't In No Slump... I Just Ain't Hitting.

You Can Tell A Lot Just By Looking At It.

Yogi Ordered A Pizza. The Waitress Asked How Many Pieces Do You Want Your Pie Cut? Yogi Responded, Four. I Don't Think I Could Eat Eight.

As A General Comment On Baseball:"90% Of The Game Is Half Mental."

If You Come To A Fork In The Road, Take It.

You Wouldn't Have Won If We'd Beaten You.

Thanks, You Don't Look So Hot Yourself.

On Being The Guest Of Honor At An Awards Banquet: "thank You For Making This Day Necessary."

I Can't Concentrate When I'm Thinking.

The Only Color I Don't Have Is Navy Brown.

The Future Ain't What It Used To Be.

We're Lost, But We're Making Good Time.

Responding To A Question About Remarks Attributed To Him That He Did Not Think Were His: "i Really Didn't Say Everything I Said."

You Can See A Lot Just By Observing.

Nobody Goes There Anymore. It's Too Crowded.

Cut My Pie Into Four Pieces, I Don’t Think I Could Eat Eight.

If You Can't Imitate Him, Don't Copy Him.

I've Been With The Yankees 17 Years, Watching Games And Learning. You Can See A Lot By Observing.

When Giving Directions To Joe Garagiola To His New Jersey Home, Which Is Accessible By Two Routes: "when You Come To A Fork In The Road, Take It."

Whatever You Do, You Should Do It With Feeling.

You Can't Win All The Time. There Are Guys Out There Who Are Better Than You.

Little Things Are Big.

I Knew I Was Going To Take The Wrong Train, So I Left Early.

Buy A Stock, If It Goes Up, Sell It, If It Goes Down, Don't Buy It.

All Pitchers Are Liars Or Crybabies.

80 Percent Of The Balls That Don't Reach The Hole, Don't Go In.

You Can Have Everything You Want As Long As You Don't Want It Badly Enough.

I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said. [...] Then Again, I Might Have Said 'em, But You Never Know.

If You Don't Know Where You're Going, When You Get There You'll Be Lost.

You Stand Up For Your Teammates. Your Loyalty Is To Them. You Protect Them Through Good And Bad, Because They'd Do The Same For You.

Every Entrepreneur Deals With Fears Of Failure. However, The Truly Successful Know How To Face These Fears And Keep On Working.

I Wish I Had An Answer To That Because I'm Tired Of Answering That Question.

Anyone Who Understands Jazz Knows That You Can't Understand It. It's Too Complicated. That's What's So Simple About It.

Why Buy Good Luggage? You Only Use It When You Travel.

Congratulations. I Knew The Record Would Stand Until It Was Broken.

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It's Pretty Far, But It Doesn't Seem Like It.

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The Game Was Two Hours, With The Commercials. I Wish They Did That Now.

It's Like Deja-vu, All Over Again.

I Don't See How He Lost Five Games During The Season.

If The World Was Perfect, It Wouldn't Be.

Bill Dickey Learned Me All His Experience.

Baseball Is Ninety Percent Mental And The Other Half Is Physical.

Inspirational Sports

If You Get A Guy That Can Play A Couple Positions, It Helps You Out A Real Lot.

Doing The Little Things Can Make A Big Difference.

You Should Always Go To Other People's Funerals, Otherwise, They Won't Come To Yours.

You Gotta Call A Blacksmith.

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I Don't Know (if They Were Men Or Women Running Naked Across The Field). They Had Bags Over Their Heads.

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.

Pitching Always Beats Batting — And Vice-versa.

The Future Is Not What It Used To Be.

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I Didn't Know Much About Golf Growing Up.

It Was Hard To Have A Conversation With Anyone, There Were So Many People Talking.

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Never Answer An Anonymous Letter.

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Little League Baseball Is A Very Good Thing Because It Keeps The Parents Off The Streets.

You've Got To Be Very Careful If You Don't Know Where You Are Going, Because You Might Not Get There.

A Good Time To Hit Is With Men On Base, Because The Pitcher Ain't Got No Place To Put You. He's Going To Get That Ball Around There Somewhere. He Don't Want To Walk You.

You Can't Think And Hit The Ball At The Same Time.

A Nickel Ain't Worth A Dime Anymore.

There Are Some People Who, If They Don't Already Know, You Can't Tell 'em.

I Think Little League Is Wonderful. It Keeps The Kids Out Of The House.

We Were Over-whelming Underdogs.

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

I'd Give My Right Arm To Be Ambidextrous.

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?

What A House - Nothin' But Rooms!

A Nickel Is Not Worth A Penny More.

It Was Impossible To Get A Conversation Going, Everybody Was Talking Too Much.

It Ain't Like Football. You Can't Make Up No Trick Plays.

I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said.

In Theory, Practice Should Work Like Theory. In Practice, It Doesn't.

It's Tough To Make Predictions, Especially About The Future.

I Never Said Most Of The Things I Said.

I Don't Know, I'm Not In Shape Yet.

Swing At The Strikes.

Listen Up, Because I've Got Nothing To Say And I'm Only Gonna To Say It Once.

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Half The Lies They Tell About Me Aren't True.

I'm Not Going To Buy My Kids An Encyclopedia. Let Them Walk To School Like I Did.

Referring To The Bad Sun Conditions In Left Field At The Stadium: It Gets Late Out There Early.

It's Fun; Baseball's Fun.

Forecasting Is Very Difficult, Especially When It Involves The Future.

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Well, I Used To Look Like This When I Was Young And Now I Still Do.

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Even Napoleon Had His Watergate.

I'd Say He's Done More Than That.

The Future Isn't What Is Used To Be.

How Can You Think And Hit At The Same Time?

You Can't Make Anybody Do Anything, If They Don't Want To.

If The Fans Don’t Wanna Come Out To The Ballpark, No One Can Stop ‘em.

Life Is A Learning Experience, Only If You Learn.

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I Guess I've Got A Smart Wife.

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I Hate To See It Go, I'll Tell You That. I Played Here All My Life. Eighteen Years I Played Here And I'm Sorry To See It Go.

Third Ain't So Bad If Nothin' Is Hit To You.

If You're Going To Cheat, It's Better If You Don't Get Caught.

Laughter Is The Shock Absorber That Eases The Blows Of Life.

What Difference Does The Uniform Make? You Don't Hit With It.

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You Don't Need Little League. You Don't Even Need Nine Kids. Four Is Plenty-a Pitcher, A Batter, And A Couple Of Shaggers. You Can Play Ball All Day Long. My Kids Used To Try To Get Me Out There, But I'd Just Say, "go Play With Your Brothers." If Kids Want To Do Something, They'll Do It. They Don't Need Adults To Do It For Them.

In Theory There Is No Difference Between Theory And Practice. In Practice There Is.

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You Better Cut The Pizza In Four Pieces Because I'm Not Hungry Enough To Eat Six.

When Asked What Would He Do If He Found $1 Million, Yogi Responded, If The Guy Was Poor, I'd Give It Back.

If You're Feeling Good, Don't Worry. You'll Get Over It.

I've Always Felt Real Blessed, Especially To Live In This Country. If You Dream Hard And Work Hard, Anything Can Happen Here-i'm Perfect Proof.

Nothing Is Like It Seems, But Everything Is Exactly Like It Is.

It's Never Happened In The World Series Competition, And It Still Hasn't.

If You Don't Know Where You Are Going, You Might Wind Up Someplace Else.

I Was In The Invasion Of Normandy In Southern France.

Prediction Is Very Hard, Particularly When It's About The Future.

If People Don't Want To Come Out To The Ball Park, Nobody's Gonna Stop 'em.

If I Didn't Wake Up I'd Still Be Sleeping

Ok You Guys, Pair Up In Threes!

Famous Baseball

It Ain't The Heat, It's The Humility.

Yeah? For What Paper?

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.

I'd Find The Fellow Who Lost It [million Dollars], And, If He Was Poor, I'd Return It.

If You Ask Me Anything I Don't Know, I'm Not Going To Answer.

If I Had To Do It All Over Again, I Would Do It All Over Again.

Nobody Can Be All Smiley All The Time, But Having A Good Positive Attitude Isn't Something To Shrug Off.

Positive Attitude

The Towels Were So Thick There I Could Hardly Close My Suitcase.

Anyone Who Is Popular Is Bound To Be Disliked.

Everything Should Be Built Top-down, Except The First Time.

I Didn't Really Say Everything I Said.

If There's One Pitch You Keep Swinging At And Keep Missing, Stop Swinging At It.

What The Hell Is Wrong With Him Now?

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You Can Observe A Lot By Just Watching.

I Don't Like Seeing Myself On Television. I Don't Like It.

The Hardest Thing Is To Get Started, But The Really Hardest Thing Is To Finish.

Cut That Pizza Into Six Slices Instead Of Eight, I Ain't That Hungry.

I Didn't Say The Things I Said.

He [steve Mcqueen] Must Have Made That Before He Died.

We Made Too Many Wrong Mistakes.

It's Not Over Until It's Over.

Texas Has A Lot Of Electrical Votes. [during An Election Campaign, After George Bush Stated That Texas Was Important To The Election]

When I'm Sittin' Down To Dinner With The Family, Stuff [another Yogiism] Just Pops Out. And They'll Say, 'dad, You Just Said Another One.' And I Don't Even Know What The Heck I Said.

Anybody Who Can't Hear The Difference Between A Ball Hitting Wood And A Ball Hitting Concrete Must Be Blind.

The Ballparks Have Gotten Too Crowded. That's Why Nobody Goes To See The Game Anymore.

I Don't Want To Make The Wrong Mistake.

Half The Game Is 90% Mental.

It's Not Too Far; It Just Seems Like It Is.

Motivational Sports

Without A Plan, Even The Most Brilliant Business Can Get Lost. You Need To Have Goals, Create Milestones And Have A Strategy In Place To Set Yourself Up For Success.

If People Don't Want To Come To The Ballpark, How Are You Going To Stop Them?

If You Don't Set Goals, You Can't Regret Not Reaching Them.

Never Answer Anonymous Letters.

Anonymous Letters

In Baseball, You Don't Know Nothin'.

I Couldn't Tell If The Streaker Was A Man Or A Woman Because It Had A Bag On It's Head.

50% Of All Married People Are Women

How Can A You Hit And Think At The Same Time?

Yankees Baseball

You Can Get Old Pretty Young If You Don't Take Care Of Yourself.

That's Too Coincidental To Be A Coincidence.

If My Father Was Alive To Hear That, He'd Turn Over In His Grave.

He Hits From Both Sides Of The Plate. He's Amphibious.

It Was Pretty Good. Even The Music Was Nice.

You Don't Have To Swing Hard To Hit A Home Run. If You Got The Timing, It'll Go.

I'm Lucky. Usually You're Dead To Get Your Own Museum, But I'm Still Alive To See Mine.

Ninety Percent Of All Mental Errors Are In Your Head.

Ninety Percent Of This Game Is Half Mental.

How Long Have You Known Me, Jack? And You Still Don't Know How To Spell My Name.

How Come It Rains Every Hall Of Fame Weekend? They Need To Move It To A Different Weekend.

Making Predictions Is Tough. Especially For The Future.

When The Waitress Asked If I Wanted My Pizza Cut Into Four Or Eight Slices, I Said, 'four. I Don't Think I Can Eat Eight.'

I Usually Take A Two-hour Nap From One To Four.

Keep Trying. Stay Humble, Trust Your Instincts. Most Importantly, Act. When You Come To A Fork In The Road, Take It.

Make A Game Plan And Stick To It. Unless It's Not Working.

I Don't Know. How Hot Is It Supposed To Be?

Yogi Saw Three Of His Players In The Locker Room Wearing Cone Head Hats. Yogi Said, Those Guys Make A Pair.

Nobody Comes Here Anymore, Its Too Crowded

Why Don't You Pair'em Up In Threes?

The Game Is Supposed To Be Fun. If You Had A Bad Day, Don't Worry. You Can't Expect To Get A Hit Every Game.

A Home Opener Is Always Exciting, No Matter If It's Home Or On The Road.

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