Math
- You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
- A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.
- Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
- Another variation: Ninety percent of this game is half mental.
- Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.
- 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 is left.
Logic
- The future ain’t what it used to be.
- I really didn’t say everything I said.
- I usually take a two hour nap from one to four.
- Never answer an anonymous letter.
- In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
- Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.
- On why NY lost the 1960 series to Pittsburgh: We made too many wrong mistakes.
- It gets late early out here.
- If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll wind up somewhere else.
- If I didn’t wake up I’d still be sleeping.
- Our similarities are different.
[said by Dale Berra, Yogi’s son, according to Retrogalaxy.com’s Yogi-Berra.]
- I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
- We have a good time together, even when we’re not together [talking about his wife Carmen].
- Asked if first baseman Don Mattingly had exceeded expectations, Yogi said “I’d say he’s done more than that!”
[Various online sources, including YogiBerra.com’s Yogi-isms and Retrogalaxy.com’s Yogi-Berra]