Here are some of his most memorable Yogisms that actually came from the Hall of Famer (ADD WHAT YOU REMEMBER OR KNOW IF I MISS A FEW ):
“It ain’t over till it’s over.”
“It’s déjà vu all over again.”
“90% of the game is half mental”
“When you come to a fork in the road ... take it.”
“I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4.”
“Never answer an anonymous letter.”
“I want to thank you for making this day necessary.”
“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
“A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
“You can observe a lot by watching.”
“I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.”
“The future ain’t what it used to be.”
“It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.”
“It gets late early out here.”
“If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.”
“Nobody goes to that place anymore, it’s too crowded.”
“If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.”
“Pair up in threes.”
“Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.”
“I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.”
“I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”
“I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.”
“You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”
“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
he said somethuign like “I always knew my record would stand, until it got broken’
“I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.”
This one, I don’t know, until a certain point in the late eighties or so and I don’t know what it was, kids in the house was not a good thing. What were they doing?
We were not allowed in the house We lived outside after school on Saturdays. In the summer. We played and we ran that realm of the neighborhood without parents
But the moms were home. Most of them. And, some of them, they knew all the kids, their character. They asked questions
Now that Wrigley has lights this one doesn’t work any more:
“It gets late early out there.”
So what did you guys do this afternoon?
Carmen said “I took Tim to see Doctor Zhivago today.” Yogi replied, “What the hell’s wrong with him now?”
a bunch of those need context.
This is based on my memory, so jump in anytime....
“Nobody goes to that place anymore, it’s too crowded.”
a few Yankees found this out of the way place where they could have a drink in peace. Word got out, the place was no longer out of the way. So “nobody” were the yankees who no longer went there.
“When you come to a fork in the road ... take it.”
was a title of one of his books. It refers to directions to his house. The road was basically a circle - keep going and you end back at the fork in the road, regardless which street you took.
“It gets late early out here.”
Yogi played the outfield and was referring to outfield shadows in late summer early fall.