The Wisdom of Yogi Berra

Yogi Berra quotes:





95% of this game is half mental.




Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.




Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded.




I want to thank all those who made this night necessary.




I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.




You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.




Slump ? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin'.




This is like deja vu all over again.




It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.




I couldn't tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on its head.




You can observe a lot just by watchin'.




In baseball, you don't know nothin'.




How can you think and hit at the same time?




In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.




Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is.




We have deep depth.




We made too many wrong mistakes.




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




It ain't over till it's over.




If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.




A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore!




Congratulations on breaking my record. I always thought the record would stand until it was broken.


Everyone I know drinks Miller Lite. And if they don't, I probably don't know them.




If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it.




If you don't know where you're going, when you get there you'll be lost.




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




Right-handers go over there, left-handers go over there, the rest of you, come with me.




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




The other teams could make trouble for us if they win. 




There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell em. 




Well, I used to look like this when I was young, and now I still do. 




Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel. 




Why don't you pair 'em up in threes?




You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half, you give what's left.

What Lies Within

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Compassion

Once you realize that compassion is useful, that it is something really worthwhile, you immediately

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.~Lao Tzu

Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.~Albert Einstein

Make no judgments where you have no compassion~Anne McCaffrey

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.~Thomas Merton

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.~Henry Ward Beecher

A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.~Thich Nhat Hanh

Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.~Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. ~Albert Schweitzer

Compassion is the basis of all morality. ~Arthur Schopenhauer

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.~Leonard Cohen

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.~Hubert H Humphrey

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.~Francis Schaeffer

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.Eric Hoffer

He who feels no compassion will become insane.~Hasidic Proverb

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ~ Charles Kuralt

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~ Bob Hope

Once you realize that compassion is useful, that it is something really worthwhile, you immediately develop a willingness to cultivate it. ~ HHDL

The Crossroads