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

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In Theory There Is

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Man Was Not Made To Travel Faster Than A Baseball

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

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

Little Things Are Big.

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.

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

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

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

I Didn't Say The Things I Said.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

We Made Too Many Wrong Mistakes.

Ninety Percent Of This Game Is Half Mental.

A Nickel Is Not Worth A Penny More.

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.

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

That's Too Coincidental To Be A Coincidence.

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

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.'

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

Half The Game Is 90% Mental.

It's Fun; Baseball's Fun.

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

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

Swing At The Strikes.

Its Getting Late Early

What Makes A Good Man?

I Didn't Know Much About Golf Growing Up.

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

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

Failure Is Just Another Opportunity To Start Over.

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

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.

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

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

I Don't Want To Make The Wrong Mistake.

Life Is A Learning Experience, Only If You Learn.

The Future Isn't What Is Used To Be.

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.

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

I Never Said Most Of The Things I Said.

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

Thanks, You Don't Look So Hot Yourself.

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

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

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

What A House - Nothin' But Rooms!

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

Losing's A Great Motivator.

Inspirational Sports

Bill Dickey Learned Me All His Experience.

I'd Give My Right Arm To Be Ambidextrous.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even Napoleon Had His Watergate.

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

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

The Game Isn't Over Till It's Over.

Motivational Sports

The Future Ain't What It Used To Be.

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

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

It's Not Over Until It's Over.

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

Anyone Who Is Popular Is Bound To Be Disliked.

In Baseball, You Don't Know Nothin'.

I'm In No Condition To Drive...wait! I Shouldn't Listen To Myself, I'm Drunk!

We Were Over-whelming Underdogs.

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

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

Whatever You Do, You Should Do It With Feeling.

Yeah? For What Paper?

Nobody Comes Here Anymore, Its Too Crowded

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

Records And Achievements Are Made To Be Broken.

It Gets Late Early Out There.

In Baseball, You Don't Know Nothing.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

It Was Pretty Good. Even The Music Was Nice.

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

Funny Inspirational

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

New York Yankees

Ninety Percent Of The Game (baseball) Is Half Mental.

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

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

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

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

I Love Baseball, I Really Do. I Always Told My Dad, I'm Not Gonna Make It Working... I Like To Play Ball Too Much. Which I Did. I Played Hard. You Gotta Work At This Game. You Really Do. And Its Fun Doing It If You Do It The Right Way.

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

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Nobody Did Nothin' To Nobody.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Future Is Not What It Used To Be.

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

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

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

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.

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

Surprise Me! Yogi's Reply When He Was Asked By His Wife, Carmen, Where He Would Like To Be Buried

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

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

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

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

I'm Glad I Was In The Navy.

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

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

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

How Can You Think And Hit At The Same Time?

Nobody Goes There Anymore. It's Too Crowded.

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

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

I Can't Concentrate When I'm Thinking.

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

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

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

Losing Is A Learning Experience. It Teaches You Humility. It Teaches You To Work Harder. It's Also A Powerful Motivator.

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.

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

I Wish Everybody Had The Drive He (joe Dimaggio) Had. He Never Did Anything Wrong On The Field. I'd Never Seen Him Dive For A Ball, Everything Was A Chest-high Catch, And He Never Walked Off The Field.

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

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

Pitching Always Beats Batting — And Vice-versa.

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

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

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

Motivational Sports

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

You Can Observe A Lot By Just Watching.

You Can See A Lot Just By Observing.

I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said.

Doing The Little Things Can Make A Big Difference.

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

Ok You Guys, Pair Up In Threes!

Famous Baseball

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

Never Answer An Anonymous Letter.

Anonymous Letters

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

You Can Tell A Lot Just By Looking At It.

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

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.

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

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

On Why He No Longer Went To Ruggeri's, A St. Louis Restaurant: "nobody Goes There Anymore Because It's Too Crowded."

A Nickel Ain't Worth A Dime Anymore.

What The Hell Is Wrong With Him Now?

New York Yankees

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."

Never Answer Anonymous Letters.

Anonymous Letters

Bill Dickey Is Learning Me His Experience.

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.

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

Texas Has A Lot Of Electrical Votes.

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

Ninety Percent Of Putts That Are Short, Don't Go In.

I Guess I've Got A Smart Wife.

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

I Was In The Invasion Of Normandy In Southern France.

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

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.

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

Inspirational Sports

I Don't Mean To Be Funny.

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

50% Of All Married People Are Women

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

Congratulations

Ninety Percent Of All Mental Errors Are In Your Head.

You Gotta Call A Blacksmith.

New York Yankees

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Positive Attitude

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

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