You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.
You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.
If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.
I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
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?
Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink.
I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.
I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
