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Yogi and Casey

Posted by JoAnn Fredin on Jun 25 2001 at 05:00PM PDT
One-liners from Yogi Berra and Casey Stengel . . .
Yogi-isms
  • "Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical."
  • "It's deja vu all over again."
  • "If you come to a fork in the road, take it."
  • "If the people don't want to come out to the park, nobody's going to stop them."
  • "I didn't really say everything I said."
  • On being asked his cap size at the beginning of spring training: "I don't know, I'm not in shape."
  • On being told by the wife of New York Mayor John V. Lindsay that he looked cool despite the heat: "You don't look so hot, either."
  • On Yogi Berra Appreciation Day in St. Louis in 1947: "I want to thank you for making this day necessary."
  • On the acquisition of fleet Ricky Henderson: "He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light."
  • After accepting an invitation to dine at the White House this week: "I thought they said steak dinner, but then I found it was a state dinner."
  • The Wisdom of Casey Stengel
  • "All right, everybody line up alphabetically according to your height."
  • "I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways."
  • "Good pitching will always stop good hitting, and vice versa."
  • "The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided."

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