Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra dies at 90
“It ain’t over ’til it’s over.”
— Self-explanatory.
“Nobody ever goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.”
“He must have made that before he died.”
— Talking about how he watched a Steve McQueen movie on television after the actor’s death in 1980.
“Slump? I ain’t in no slump. I just ain’t hitting.”
— During a particularly rough stretch at the plate.
“You mean right now?”
— Yogi, when asked what time it was.
“If I didn’t wake up, I’d still be sleeping.”
— Well, obviously.
“It’s nothing but rooms.”
— Yogi, describing his enormous house in Montclair, N.J.
“If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.”
— Yogi’s ground rule for radio interviews.
“How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don’t know how to spell my name.”
— Yogi to announcer Jack Buck after he paid the Yankees catcher for a pregame show appearance with a check made out to “Bearer.”
“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
— Indeed.
“Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”
— Yogi math.
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