Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra
Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berrawas an American professional baseball catcher, manager, and coach who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball, all but the last for the New York Yankees. An 18-time All-Star and 10-time World Series champion as a player, Berra had a career batting average of .285, while compiling 358 home runs and 1,430 runs batted in. He is one of only five players to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award three times. Widely regarded as one...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth12 May 1925
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them .
If the fans don’t wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop ‘em.
80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.
Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.
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.
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.
You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.
Yogi called the 1969 New York Mets: "Overwhelming underdogs
When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.
Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.