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

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

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

Nobody Comes Here Anymore, Its Too Crowded

That's Too Coincidental To Be A Coincidence.

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

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

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

50% Of All Married People Are Women

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 Don't Want To Make The Wrong Mistake.

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

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

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.

It Gets Late Early Out There.

All Pitchers Are Liars Or Crybabies.

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

Yankees Baseball

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

Anyone Who Is Popular Is Bound To Be Disliked.

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

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."

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

You Can Observe A Lot By Just Watching.

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.

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

Yeah? For What Paper?

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

What The Hell Is Wrong With Him Now?

New York Yankees

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

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

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

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

In Baseball, You Don't Know Nothing.

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

The Future Isn't What Is Used To Be.

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

Texas Has A Lot Of Electrical Votes.

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

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

Funny Inspirational

I Was In The Invasion Of Normandy In Southern France.

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

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

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

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.

Bill Dickey Is Learning Me His Experience.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said.

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.

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

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

It's Fun; Baseball's Fun.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

How Can You Think And Hit At The Same Time?

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

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

We Were Over-whelming Underdogs.

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.

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

I Didn't Know Much About Golf Growing Up.

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

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

Even Napoleon Had His Watergate.

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Failure Is Just Another Opportunity To Start Over.

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

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

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

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

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?

Ninety Percent Of All Mental Errors Are In Your Head.

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

Congratulations

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

What A House - Nothin' But Rooms!

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 Don't Mean To Be Funny.

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.

Little Things Are Big.

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

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

Nobody Did Nothin' To Nobody.

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

You Can Tell A Lot Just By Looking At It.

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

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

Man Was Not Made To Travel Faster Than A Baseball

Thanks, You Don't Look So Hot Yourself.

I Can't Concentrate When I'm Thinking.

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

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

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

Making Predictions Is Tough. Especially For The Future.

Nobody Goes There Anymore. It's Too Crowded.

Doing The Little Things Can Make A Big Difference.

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

I'd Give My Right Arm To Be Ambidextrous.

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

The Future Ain't What It Used To Be.

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

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

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

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

Never Answer Anonymous Letters.

Anonymous Letters

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.

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

Whatever You Do, You Should Do It With Feeling.

A Nickel Is Not Worth A Penny More.

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

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

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

Life Is A Learning Experience, Only If You Learn.

I Never Said Most Of The Things I Said.

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.

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

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

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

Losing's A Great Motivator.

Inspirational Sports

Never Answer An Anonymous Letter.

Anonymous Letters

It Was Pretty Good. Even The Music Was Nice.

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

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

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

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

New York Yankees

A Nickel Ain't Worth A Dime Anymore.

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

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

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.

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

Positive Attitude

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

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

Records And Achievements Are Made To Be Broken.

Its Getting Late Early

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

Motivational Sports

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

I'm Glad I Was In The Navy.

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

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

New York Yankees

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.

Pitching Always Beats Batting — And Vice-versa.

It's Not Over Until It's Over.

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

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

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

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

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

Half The Game Is 90% Mental.

We Made Too Many Wrong Mistakes.

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

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

You Gotta Call A Blacksmith.

New York Yankees

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

Inspirational Sports

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Swing At The Strikes.

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

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

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

I Guess I've Got A Smart Wife.

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.

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

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

What Makes A Good Man?

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

The Future Is Not What It Used To Be.

Happy Accidents

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

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

Ninety Percent Of This Game Is Half Mental.

Glen Cove. [referring To Glenn Close On A Movie Review Television Show]

Bill Dickey Learned Me All His Experience.

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

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

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

In Baseball, You Don't Know Nothin'.

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