Posted on 11/12/2009 11:36:58 AM PST by GSWarrior
This thread may go nowhere, but it could be fun. What are your favorite Berra-isms, malapropisms or otherwise ludicrous quotes.
Here are three:
You could have knocked me over with a fender. (Not sure who said this.)
We've all passed a lot of water under the bridge. (I made this one up myself, I think)
Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bullpen. (attributed to former Padres broadcaster Jerry Coleman.)
Anyone like to share?
Woody Allen, I believe.
Gilbert Gottfried is the voice of the duck.
Aflac commercial.
That to me is the funniest commercial ever. Must have seen it a hundred times yet it still makes me laugh.
BBC announcer commenting on a bowling change :- "England captain, Ray Illingworth, has just relieved himself at the pavilion end."
The towels were so thick I couldn’t close my suitcase. And Yogi was in the AFLAC commercial
“I want to thank you all for making this day necessary”
“I didn’t really say everything I said”
Bob Gibson to Tim McCarver “The only thing you know about good pitching is that it’s hard to hit.”
i believe that would be:
“the food here is terrible”
“yes, but the portions are large”
Good one!
I knoe it’s not Berra who was one of my favorites, but:
Ken Clay was a Yankee pitcher from Lynchburg, Virginia. Once he was asked what he thought of Bob Lemmon as a manager.
He said the first game he started for Bob Lemmon, he was getting shelled in the first inning. After a bunch of runs and no outs, Lemmon came out to the mound. Bob Lemmon said, “That’s OK son, why don’t you go get a shower and have a couple of beers.” Thurmon Munson was standing there and said, “Coach, since you’re conceeding the game, can I go have a few beers, too?”
My favorite Thurman Munson story.
You should go to other people's funerals. Otherwise they won't come to yours.
To his wife, who asked where he wanted to be buried: Surprise me!
Here’s another good one.
A young reporter in Texas noticed that John Lowenstein (Orioles) always caught fly balls one-handed. After the game he asked John, “Who was the first major leaguer to catch a fly ball one-handed.” Without any hesitation, Lowenstein replied, “That was Pete Gray.” The reporter thought he had a scoop and wrote the story without any fact checking. Hint- if you don’t know who Pete Gray was and the circumstances of his playing in the big leagues was, you don’t know baseball. In spite of his handicap, he was a very good ball player.
I was there for this one:
Sitting a few rows up from the Oriole bullpen in old Arlington stadium, the Orioles were gettin blown out by the Rangers. This drunk kept hollaring, “What’s the score!!” This went on for several innings. Then Tim Stoddard came out of the dugout. Tim was a huge man and a relief pitcher who caused Earl Weaver to go through a pack of cigarettes every time he pitched. Tim came over to the rail and shouted at the drunk, “There’s a scoreboard up there; use it!” Then he disappeared back in the dugout. We never heard a peep out of that drunk the rest of the game.
Movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn: “If people aren’t going to the movies, you can’t stop them.”
My youngest son wrote Yogi for an autograph about twenty years ago. He sent an old baseball card from the back of a Wheaties’ cereal box for Yogi to sign. In his letter to Yogi he uttered his own Yogi-ism when he penned, “You have been my favorite player for ten years. You would have been my favorite for longer, but I’m only ten years old.” Yogi not only sent the card back signed, but a personal note. Class act on Yogi’s part!
Now, what do you call misquoted Yogisms that fill this thread?
“Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn’t go see it.” -— Samuel Goldwyn
(Isn’t that a sentiment expressed here often?!)
“Some of the things I said, I didn’t.”
If you get hurt and miss work; it won't hurt to miss work.
If you get hurt and miss work; it won't hurt to miss work.
Freep-apropisms?
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