Poll: Yogi-isms

Results of 384 votes:

1. 1.
   

   Gary Cooper and Babe Ruth in The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

    

   It ain't over till it's over.
2. 2.
   

   Andrew Jackson playing Paul O'Neill of the New York Yankees

    

   The future ain't what it used to be.
3. 3.
   

   Gary Cooper and Harry Harvey in The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

    

   It's deja vu all over again.
4. 4.
   

   Norman Reedus

    

   I never said most of the things I said.
5. 5.
   

   Scooby's Laff-A Lympics (1977)

    

   When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
6. 6.
   

   Baseball swing

    

   Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
7. 7.
   

   Daws Butler in The Yogi Bear Show (1961)

    

   You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.
8. 8.
   

   Tom Selleck and Dennis Haysbert in Mr. Baseball (1992)

    

   Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.
9. 9.
   

   Dynasty: The New York Yankees (2000)

    

   I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4.
10. 10.
    

    Gary Cooper in The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

     

    Never answer an anonymous letter.
11. 11.
    

    Armando Gutierrez, New York Yankees

     

    You can observe a lot by watching.
12. 12.
    

    Gary Cooper in The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

     

    It gets late early out here.
13. 13.
    

    #21

     

    I don't know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.
14. 14.
    

    Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright in The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

     

    We made too many wrong mistakes.
15. 15.
    

    Gary Cooper and Babe Ruth in The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

     

    If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
16. 16.
    

    Tom Selleck in Mr. Baseball (1992)

     

    All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
17. 17.
    

    Mel Blanc in Baseball Bugs (1946)

     

    I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
18. 18.
    

    Baseball (1994)

     

    A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
19. 19.
    

    Baseball (1994)

     

    He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
20. 20.
    

    Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright in The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

     

    If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
21. 21.
    

    Kevin Costner in For Love of the Game (1999)

     

    It ain't the heat, it's the humility.
22. 22.
    

    Daws Butler in The Yogi Bear Show (1961)

     

    So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.
23. 23.
    

    Daws Butler and Don Messick in The Yogi Bear Show (1961)

     

    Take it with a grin of salt.
24. 24.
    

    Daws Butler and Don Messick in The Yogi Bear Show (1961)

     

    The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
25. 25.
    

    Tom Selleck and Ken Takakura in Mr. Baseball (1992)

     

    Pair up in threes.
26. 26.
    

    Tom Selleck in Mr. Baseball (1992)

     

    Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.
27. 27.
    

    Baseball (1994)

     

    I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
28. 28.
    

    Writer and Narrator John Morales shares a moment with New York Mets centerfielder Carlos Beltran. In baseball and in life, Beltran relies on his strong faith in God to sustain him.

     

    I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
29. 29.
    

    Celebrity Baseball Edward G. Robinson in Los Angeles, CA, circa 1959. Modern silver gelatin,11X14, $600 © 1978 Bernie Abramson MPTV

     

    In baseball, you don't know nothing.
30. 30.
    

    Joe Massingill in Trouble with the Curve (2012)

     

    I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
31. 31.
    

    Baseball (1994)

     

    Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
32. 32.
    

    Tom Selleck and Dennis Haysbert in Mr. Baseball (1992)

     

    I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won 25 games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.
33. 33.
    

    T-Rex Pennebaker (Brian White, center) and fellow teammates learn from Stan Ross that the game of baseball is truly a team sport.

     

    I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
34. 34.
    

    Baseball swing

     

    I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field…
35. 35.
    

    Daws Butler and Don Messick in The Yogi Bear Show (1961)

     

    (On the 1973 Mets) We were overwhelming underdogs.