“You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.”

If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.

It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.

You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

The team has come along slow but fast.

You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.

Without losers, where would the winners be?

There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.

You see people in the left lane, and as long as they are on the speed limit, they stay there. Get in the right lane and let people pass you.

You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

It sucks getting old.

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.