Yogi Berra Quotes
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Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
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When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
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Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.
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The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
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When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
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I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.
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It's fun; baseball's fun.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.
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Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?
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If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television anytime you want. But people still go to the ballpark because they are two different experiences. It's the same with film.
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It's like, baseball is a very good game, but it's very difficult to explain to somebody, if you stop and think about it. I just feel my life is like that.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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A man who can’t read only knows what other folks tell him.
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If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
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For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
