Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra, 89, was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1925.
He is a former Major League Baseball catcher, outfielder, and manager. He played almost his entire 19-year baseball career (1946–1965) for the New York Yankees. Berra was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.
However, Yogi Berra is almost known better for his sayings than for his baseball skill.
He quit school after the eighth grade, which certainly influenced his command of the English Language. His pithy comments and witticisms became known as known as “Yogiisms.” Yogiisms very often take the form of either an apparently obvious tautology or a paradoxical contradiction.
Yogi has frequently appeared in advertisements demonstrating his famous Yogiisms and is among the longest running commercial pitchmen in the U.S. Based on his style of speaking, Yogi was named “Wisest Fool of the Past 50 Years” by the Economist magazine in January 2005.
Browse our selection of Yogi Berra’s sayings to see if you agree with that description:
- Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
- It’s like deja-vu, all over again.
- If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
- The future ain’t what it used to be.
- You can observe a lot by just watching.
- It ain’t over till it’s over.
- Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.
- Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
- You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.
- In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
- Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.
- I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
- It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.
- He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.
Yogi Berra’s sayings are legendary.
The strange thing about Yogi is that the one saying we didn’t include. He was reputed to have said as he got older: “I never said most of the things I said.”
Whether he did or not, do you think they were wise – or foolish?
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