“Without losers, where would the winners be?”

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.

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

If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.

We are really proud of our culture and, really, just being a minority.

Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love.

Speech happens to not be his language.

If people are cool, then they are not stressed. I pity the fool that don’t be cool.

My shows are not all-the-way filthy, but they can be.

Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.