Frasi di Yogi Berra
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Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra è stato un giocatore di baseball, allenatore di baseball e aforista statunitense.

Vissuto a Montclair, in New Jersey, fin dal periodo in cui era giocatore professionista, è stato ricevitore e manager della Major League Baseball, dove ha giocato l'intera carriera nella squadra dei New York Yankees. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Maggio 1925 – 22. Settembre 2015
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Yogi Berra: 66 citazioni1 Mi piace

Yogi Berra frasi celebri

“In teoria non c'è differenza fra la teoria e la pratica. Ma in pratica c'è.”

Yogi Berra

citato in Focus, n. 117, p. 183

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Yogi Berra: Frasi in inglese

“If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.”

Yogi Berra

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 15
Yogiisms

“If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there.”

Yogi Berra

When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes, Hyperion, 2002, ISBN 0786867752, p. 53
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 39
Yogiisms
Variante: You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going because you might not get there.
Variante: If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else.[citation needed]
Variante: You got to be careful if you do not know where you are going, because you might not get there.

“I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.”

Yogi Berra

The Yogi book: I really didn't say everything I said!, Workman Publishing, 1997, , p. 10.
Said on Yogi Berra day in 1947 in St. Louis. By his account, he asked a teammate to write a speech, and he misspoke, saying "necessary" instead of "possible."
Yogiisms
Variante: Thank you for making this day necessary.

“If people don't want to come to the ballpark how are you going to stop them?”

Yogi Berra

The Yogi book: I really didn't say everything I said!, Workman Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0761110909, p. 36.
The quote "If people don’t want to come, nothing will stop them" first appears in 1952, credited to music impresario Sol Hurok. It was first attributed to Berra in 1962. See http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/10/30/stop-em/
Disputed

“If you don't know where you are going you will end up somewhere else”

Yogi Berra

Variante: If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.
Origine: The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said

“For a while, he was far better than the team around him, and he could give me fits..”

Yogi Berra

On Alex Kellner, the pitcher Berra claimed gave him the most trouble; as quoted in The Greatest Team of All Time: As Selected by Baseball Immortals from Ty Cobb to Willie Mays (1994), compiled by Nicholas Acocella and Donald Dewey, p. 13.

“I knew the record would stand until it was broken.”

Yogi Berra

The Yogi book: I really didn't say everything I said!, Workman Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0761110909, p. 91. Originally from a congratulatory telegram to Johnny Bench on breaking his record for home runs by a catcher.
Yogiisms

“You guys are trying to stop Musial in 15 minutes while the National League ain’t stopped him in 15 years.”

Yogi Berra

Speaking with teammates on July 12, 1949, during a pre-All-Star-Game clubhouse meeting, as quoted in Baseball is a Funny Game (1960) by Joe Garagiola; cited in "Point Blank" http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/69696307/ by Don Bryant, in The Lincoln Star (Sunday, June 5, 1960), p. 31.

“Rock Hudson, I suppose.”

Yogi Berra

Responding, in kind, to Joe Garagiola's facetious request for Berra's opinion as to who would star in his film biography, as quoted in "Yogi Battles Third and Finds It Hot" http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/12048270/ by Arthur Daley, in The Salt Lake Tribune (Monday, March 14, 1960), p. 47.

“But it don't bother me. I never yet saw anybody hit the baseball with their face. Besides, I like to get kidded; that means they like me. When they stop kidding me, I'm in trouble.”

Yogi Berra

As quoted in "Stupid, You Say?" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2ykxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MhAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4563%2C4702173 by Frank Litsky, in The Milwaukee Sentinel American Weekly (Sunday, September 18, 1960), p. 7.

“It's unbelievable that Phil had to wait so long to get in to the Hall of Fame. Maris's home run record in 1961 has become something of a curse. He wasn't just a home run hitter, he could do everything—hit in the clutch, field, throw and run.”

Yogi Berra

On the two players deemed by Berra the most underrated of his era; as quoted in The Greatest Team of All Time: As Selected by Baseball Immortals from Ty Cobb to Willie Mays, p. 13.

“[What time is it? ] You mean now?”

Yogi Berra

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532
He was on a passenger jet at the time, so he was not sure in which time zone he was.
Yogiisms

“My ambition is to hit.400 and talk 1.000.”

Yogi Berra

As quoted in "Stupid, You Say?" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2ykxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MhAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4563%2C4702173.

“Never answer an anonymous letter.”

Yogi Berra

Berra expressly denied this widespread attribution in Yogi: It Ain’t Over (1989), p. 11, but later embraced it in The Yogi Book: I really didn’t say everything I said! (1998). Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/13/anon-letter/ traces this saying to the 19th century. <br class="br">Disputed, Misattributed

“I looked like this when I was young, and I still do.”

Yogi Berra

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743237684
Yogiisms

“From the kids on the neighborhood Stag Athletic Club baseball team on the Hill. We went to a movie one afternoon, and there was one of those yogi characters in the picture. Coming out of the joint, one of the kids looked at me, started laughing, and said: "Hey, Berra walks just like that yogi in the movie."”

Yogi Berra

I&#x27;ve been Yogi ever since. <br class="br">As quoted in &quot;Yogi Credits Dickey For His Climb&quot; https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ykIaAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=tCMEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=6640%2C6523488 by Harry Grayson, in The Hendersonville Times-News (Thursday, November 22, 1951), p. 8.

“What's wrong with readin' comic books? I don't understand this kiddin' about readin' comic books. When I get through with 'em the other players on our club borrow them from me. Nobody makes a fuss about that.”

Yogi Berra

Al Abrams, from &quot;Sidelight on Sports: A New One on Yogi&quot; https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kpJRAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=pGoDAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=1705%2C4055373 in The Pittsburgh Press (Monday, September 15, 1952), p. 20.

“I gotta shake hands with himǃ That's one guy I know I'm better lookin' than.”

Yogi Berra

On Pirates manager Danny Murtaugh; as quoted in &quot;The Village Smithyː Bobby Bragan Gets Good Seat To See &#x27;My Boys&#x27; In Series; Yogi &#x27;Better Looking&#x27; Than Danny&quot; https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pMAbAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=kU4EAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2519%2C1822388 by Chester L. Smith, in The Pittsburgh Press (Wednesday, October 5, 1960), p. 53

“He's learning me all of his experience.”

Yogi Berra

Regarding Bill Dickey, circa spring 1949, paraphrased in &quot;Yogi, His Autobiography: Dickey Hired as Mask Tutor&quot; https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Ep5RAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=PmwDAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=7202%2C853227 by Berra, with Ed Fitzgerald, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Sunday, March 5, 1961), Section 3, Page 4. <br class="br">Yogiisms

“I dunno. This game is getting funnier and funnier. We do everything but punch 'em in the nose and here we are all tied up in the Series. We flatten 'em by scores of 16-3, 10-0 and 12-0 and we still need one more to win. How do you figure that? Don't write this, but even if they beat us tomorrow, we're the better club.”

Yogi Berra

On the 1960 World Series; as quoted in &quot;We Flattened &#x27;Em, Yet We&#x27;re Only Tied&#x27;&quot; https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PtpaAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=uWwDAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=3807%2C3562090 by Joe Reichler (AP), in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (October 13, 1960), p. 35

“Little things are big.”

Yogi Berra

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 69.
Yogiisms

“Thank you for making this day necessary.”

Yogi Berra

The Yogi book: I really didn't say everything I said!, Workman Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0761110909, p. 10.
Said on Yogi Berra day in 1947 in St. Louis. By his account, he asked a teammate to write a speech, and he misspoke, saying "necessary" instead of "possible."
Yogiisms

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