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What's your favourite Yogi Berra quote?

Here's one I hadn't heard before: "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." 

Posted - January 19, 2017

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  • There's been a bit of that going around the Australian Open this week. A few unexpecred results! Good choice, Mountain Man, and good to see you on aM. 
      January 20, 2017 12:50 PM MST
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    Thanks Didge, It's good to be here and see some familiar people. 
      January 21, 2017 7:05 AM MST
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    "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."

    Yes, I know it's already been posted, but this one clearly shows the magic of Yogi-isms. At first, you laugh thinking Yogi's just another Mrs. Malaprop. But, on further reflection, you KNOW what he means, and it makes SENSE. Yogi may have been ahead of all of us.    

    Great topic.        
      January 19, 2017 5:00 PM MST
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  • Fair comment.  I rarely go ANYWHERE that's too crowded. :) 
      January 20, 2017 12:52 PM MST
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  • I'm a bit confused here:/.... I thought that name was a cartoon bear ;p 
      January 19, 2017 5:12 PM MST
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  • Yogi Bear was a cartoon character. Yogi Berra was a baseball player and coach who is as famous for his mangled quotes as for his baseball skills. 
      January 19, 2017 5:18 PM MST
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  • Oh :)
      January 19, 2017 5:20 PM MST
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  • It's impossible to get a conversation going.  Everyone is talking too much. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at January 26, 2017 2:50 AM MST
      January 19, 2017 5:17 PM MST
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  • Nice one! :) 
      January 20, 2017 12:54 PM MST
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  • Never have truer words been spoken.
      January 20, 2017 1:04 PM MST
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  • I identified with it immediately, I'm so deaf that if I'm in a group of people I can't take part in the conversation if more than one person at a time is talking. The words get lost in the background babble.
      January 20, 2017 1:08 PM MST
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  • My old man is just  like that.   I am to a lesser extent.   Like if I'm a crowded place, even if it isn't that loud, everything becomes a rhythmic white noise.  I often just nod because I can only ask "what?" so many times before I give up.

    2 stroke engines, firecrackers, guns, and power tools done did it to me.
      January 20, 2017 1:16 PM MST
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  • In my case it was spending years with my ear glued to a Morse sounder (not the oscillators you hear on the old movies but the clacker we used on land lines). Even when we stopped using Morse in 1959 I spend the next 20 years in that job with hundreds of noisy teletypes. None of us were aware of the noise but visitors always complained about it. 
      January 20, 2017 1:30 PM MST
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    Once, Yogi's wife Carmen asked, "Yogi, you are from St. Louis, we live in New Jersey, and you played ball in New York. If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?" Yogi replied, "Surprise me."

    and another of his thoughts on passing on to the next life . . .

    "You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." This post was edited by Salt and Red Pepper at January 19, 2017 8:00 PM MST
      January 19, 2017 5:19 PM MST
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  • I like those two. Another I liked was when an interviewer said, "Yogi, if you found $1 million in the street what would you do with it?" And he replied, "I'd find out who owned it and if it was a poor person I'd give it back." 
      January 19, 2017 5:33 PM MST
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    Oh God - ROFL - best one yet ...
      January 19, 2017 8:02 PM MST
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  • All of them.
      January 19, 2017 6:21 PM MST
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  • True enough. :) 
      January 20, 2017 12:54 PM MST
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    "It's ain't over until it's over."
      January 25, 2017 3:36 PM MST
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