Frases célebres de Yogi Berra
Frases de fe de Yogi Berra
“En teoría, no hay diferencia entre práctica y teoría. En la práctica, si la hay.”
Frase atribuida también al físico Albert Einstein y a Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut.
“Y te pagan en efectivo, lo que es tan bueno como el dinero.”
Haciendo un comercial de la aseguradora AFLAC.
Yogi Berra Frases y Citas
“Córtela en cuatro, no creo que pueda comer ocho.”
Cuando en un restaurante italiano le preguntaron en cuantas partes debía estar cortada su pizza.
“Si fuera de una persona pobre, se lo devolvería.”
Cuando le preguntaron qué haría si se encontrara un millón de dólares.
“En realidad no he dicho todo lo que dije.”
Refiriéndose a todas las frases que erróneamente se le han atribuido.
“Creo que es la primera vez que llego tarde tan temprano.”
Siempre llegaba media hora tarde a las entrevistas. En esta ocasión fueron sólo cinco minutos.
“Quiero agradecerles por hacer esta fiesta necesaria.”
Al dar un discurso en una fiesta. Había pedido a un compañero que escriba su discurso, quien confundió 'posible' con 'necesaria'.
“Oscurece horrendamente temprano por aquí.”
En referencia al jardín izquierdo del Yankee Stadium.
“Es como un déjà vu otra vez.”
Luego de muchos años sin asistir al Yankee Stadium, el 18 de julio de 1999 (el 'día de Don Larsen') atrapó el lanzamiento ceremonial de Don Larsen (quien le lanzó el único juego perfecto en la historia de post temporada de MLB el 8 de octubre de 1956 en el Juego 5 de la Serie Mundial). Ese día, ambos fueron espectadores de otro juego perfecto cortesía del pitcher de los Yankees, David Cone.
“Es difícil hacer predicciones… especialmente sobre el futuro.”
Frase atribuida a, entre otros, Niels Bohr.
Respuesta frecuente cuando alguien le decía que no era muy apuesto.
“Cuando encuentres una bifurcación en el camino, tómala.”
Explicando como llegar a su casa, daba igual el camino que se elegía, por ambos se llegaba.
“Debe haberla hecho antes de morir.”
Sobre una película de cierto actor, que acababa de ver.
Yogi Berra: Frases en inglés
“If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.”
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 15
Yogiisms
“If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there.”
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes, Hyperion, 2002, ISBN 0786867752, p. 53
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 39
Yogiisms
Variante: You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going because you might not get there.
Variante: If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else.[citation needed]
Variante: You got to be careful if you do not know where you are going, because you might not get there.
“I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.”
The Yogi book: I really didn't say everything I said!, Workman Publishing, 1997, , p. 10.
Said on Yogi Berra day in 1947 in St. Louis. By his account, he asked a teammate to write a speech, and he misspoke, saying "necessary" instead of "possible."
Yogiisms
Variante: Thank you for making this day necessary.
“If people don't want to come to the ballpark how are you going to stop them?”
The Yogi book: I really didn't say everything I said!, Workman Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0761110909, p. 36.
The quote "If people don’t want to come, nothing will stop them" first appears in 1952, credited to music impresario Sol Hurok. It was first attributed to Berra in 1962. See http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/10/30/stop-em/
Disputed
“If you don't know where you are going you will end up somewhere else”
Variante: If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.
Fuente: The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said
“For a while, he was far better than the team around him, and he could give me fits..”
On Alex Kellner, the pitcher Berra claimed gave him the most trouble; as quoted in The Greatest Team of All Time: As Selected by Baseball Immortals from Ty Cobb to Willie Mays (1994), compiled by Nicholas Acocella and Donald Dewey, p. 13.
“I knew the record would stand until it was broken.”
The Yogi book: I really didn't say everything I said!, Workman Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0761110909, p. 91. Originally from a congratulatory telegram to Johnny Bench on breaking his record for home runs by a catcher.
Yogiisms
Speaking with teammates on July 12, 1949, during a pre-All-Star-Game clubhouse meeting, as quoted in Baseball is a Funny Game (1960) by Joe Garagiola; cited in "Point Blank" http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/69696307/ by Don Bryant, in The Lincoln Star (Sunday, June 5, 1960), p. 31.
As quoted in "Raschi Was Best Hurler: Yogi" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2rEfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PdcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1965%2C6170607 by Harry Grayson, in The Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian (Thursday, March 17, 1960), p. 3B.
From Yogi: The Autobiography of a Professional Baseball Player; reproduced in "Berra Dispels Li'l Abner Myth."
Responding, in kind, to Joe Garagiola's facetious request for Berra's opinion as to who would star in his film biography, as quoted in "Yogi Battles Third and Finds It Hot" http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/12048270/ by Arthur Daley, in The Salt Lake Tribune (Monday, March 14, 1960), p. 47.
From Yogi: The Autobiography of a Professional Baseball Player (February 1961) by Berra with Ed Fitzgerald; reproduced in "Berra Dispels Li'l Abner Myth" by Berra and Fitzgerald, in The Boston Globe (Saturday, July 2, 1961), p. A1.
As quoted in "Stupid, You Say?" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2ykxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MhAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4563%2C4702173 by Frank Litsky, in The Milwaukee Sentinel American Weekly (Sunday, September 18, 1960), p. 7.
On the two players deemed by Berra the most underrated of his era; as quoted in The Greatest Team of All Time: As Selected by Baseball Immortals from Ty Cobb to Willie Mays, p. 13.
“[What time is it? ] You mean now?”
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532
He was on a passenger jet at the time, so he was not sure in which time zone he was.
Yogiisms
“My ambition is to hit.400 and talk 1.000.”
As quoted in "Stupid, You Say?" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2ykxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MhAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4563%2C4702173.
“Never answer an anonymous letter.”
Berra expressly denied this widespread attribution in Yogi: It Ain’t Over (1989), p. 11, but later embraced it in The Yogi Book: I really didn’t say everything I said! (1998). Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/13/anon-letter/ traces this saying to the 19th century. <br class="br">Disputed, Misattributed
As quoted in "Raschi Was Best Hurler: Yogi" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2rEfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PdcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1965%2C6170607.
“I looked like this when I was young, and I still do.”
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743237684
Yogiisms
I've been Yogi ever since. <br class="br">As quoted in "Yogi Credits Dickey For His Climb" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ykIaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tCMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6640%2C6523488 by Harry Grayson, in The Hendersonville Times-News (Thursday, November 22, 1951), p. 8.
Al Abrams, from "Sidelight on Sports: A New One on Yogi" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kpJRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pGoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1705%2C4055373 in The Pittsburgh Press (Monday, September 15, 1952), p. 20.
“I gotta shake hands with himǃ That's one guy I know I'm better lookin' than.”
On Pirates manager Danny Murtaugh; as quoted in "The Village Smithyː Bobby Bragan Gets Good Seat To See 'My Boys' In Series; Yogi 'Better Looking' Than Danny" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pMAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kU4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=2519%2C1822388 by Chester L. Smith, in The Pittsburgh Press (Wednesday, October 5, 1960), p. 53
“He's learning me all of his experience.”
Regarding Bill Dickey, circa spring 1949, paraphrased in "Yogi, His Autobiography: Dickey Hired as Mask Tutor" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Ep5RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PmwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7202%2C853227 by Berra, with Ed Fitzgerald, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Sunday, March 5, 1961), Section 3, Page 4. <br class="br">Yogiisms
On the 1960 World Series; as quoted in "We Flattened 'Em, Yet We're Only Tied'" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PtpaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uWwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3807%2C3562090 by Joe Reichler (AP), in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (October 13, 1960), p. 35
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 69.
Yogiisms
“Thank you for making this day necessary.”
The Yogi book: I really didn't say everything I said!, Workman Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0761110909, p. 10.
Said on Yogi Berra day in 1947 in St. Louis. By his account, he asked a teammate to write a speech, and he misspoke, saying "necessary" instead of "possible."
Yogiisms
