YOGI BERRA
ADVICE FOR LIFE FROM THE ZENNEST MASTER OF THEM ALL
An associate of mine, Ray Silverstein (www.propres.com ),used Yogi Berra’s book You Can Observe A Lot By Watching: What I’ve Learned About Teamwork From The Yankees And Life (written with Dave H Kaplan) as the topic of his last meeting. It’s fun and interesting. Here are some of his quotes.
As a fun exercise, try to figure out what each quote means. Then, if you want to know what the “Zennest master of them all” really meant, click here.
- “I ain’t in a slump. I’m just not hitting.”
- “It get late early out there.”
- “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
- “You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going because you might not get there.”
- “Ninety percent of this game is half-mental.”
- “Why be jealous over things you don’t have?”
- “Little things are big.”
- “We made too many wrong mistakes.”
- “If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.”
- “Pair up in threes.”