From: skitchen@pilot.njin.net (Not your average USENET junkie...)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Yogi Berra lines
Date: 5 Oct 92 23:57:47 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

In article <BvGIsB.2I9@scd.hp.com> dsamm@boi.hp.com (Dan Sammartino) writes:

> In article <168729F6A.SDENARO@vm.poly.edu> SDENARO@vm.poly.edu writes:
> >In article <1992Sep29.101556.1@pearl.tufts.edu>
> >mweinste@pearl.tufts.edu writes:
> > 
> >>
> >>Mantle: What time is it?
> >>Yogi: You mean right now?
> >>

Actually, it's not Mickey Mantle, but Tom Seaver.  This from my source
(attributed below) who got it from Jon Winokur's _Zen to Go_.

> > 
> >Reporter: Yogi, you look cool today...
> >Yogi:     Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself...
> > 

Again, somewhat wrong.  "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself," came
from a statement by Mary Lindsay (wife of NYC mayor John Lindsay) that
Yogi "looked nice and cool".

> 
> In my opinion, the best Yogi-ism:
> 
> Reporter: Hey Yogi what do you think about that restaurant?
> Yogi: No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded.

The reporter actually asked about Toots Shor's restaurant.  This from
_The Book of Sports Quotations_.

A whole bunch more Yogisms...

"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."

"All pitchers are liars and crybabies."

"Baseball is ninety percent mental.  The other half is physical."

"Congratulations on breaking my record.  I always thought the record
would stand until it was broken."

"Everyone I know drinks Miller Lite.  And if they don't, I probably
don't know them."

"He is a big clog in their machine."
	--about Ted Williams, also Tony Perez

"I got a touch of pantomine poisoning."

"I want to thank you for making this day necessary."

"I usually take a two-hour nap, from 1:00 to 4:00."

"If the people don't want to come out to the park, nobody's going to
stop them."

"If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."

"If you come to a fork in the road, take it."

"In baseball, you don't know nothing."

"It ain't over til it's over."

"It gets late early out here."

"It was hard to have a conversation with anyone, there were so many
people talking."

"It's deja vu all over again."

"Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the
parents off the streets."

"Ninety percent of this game is half mental."

"So I'm ugly.  So what?  I never saw anyone hit with his face."

"The other teams could make trouble for us if they win."

"Third (base) ain't so bad if nothin' is hit to you."

"We have deep depth."

"We made too many wrong mistakes."

"Well, I used to look like this when I was young, and now I still do."

"Why buy good luggage?  You only use it when you travel."

"You can observe a lot by watching."

"You can't win all of the time.  There are guys out there who are
better than you."

"You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't
enough in the second half, you give what's left."

"You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there."

All the above from _Baseball's Greatest Quotations_ by Paul Dickson.
Great book.

Scott
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