Yogi Berra Talks About Golf, Being Yogi, Mickey Mantle & More
Yogi Berra, 85, an ambassador for the PGA Tour’s 51st Bob Hope Classic Jan. 18-24, in La Quinta Calif., took reporters’ questions about – what else – being Yogi Berra, the American syntactic legend and White-and-Strunk puzzle within an enigma.
The Yankee Hall of Famer, who has been involved with the Hope for 15 years, was on the phone for a conference call from his home in New Jersey and was asked about his penchant for Yogi-isms such as “It’s deja vu all over again.”
Because so many of Berra’s quotes have entered the lexicon of golf – “90 percent of putts that are short don’t go in” – we had to excerpt the transcript of the call with this legend, the likes of whom may never again walk this earth. So, even though Yogi may never have played golf in New Mexico, here’s what he’s saying…
Q. Yogi, all those crazy quotes attributed to you over the years, how many of those did you actually say and how many of those were made up?
YOGI BERRA: Quite a few of ‘em. A lot of ‘em. The funny part about it, I don’t even know I say ‘em. That’s the funny part about it. There’s a few I could tell you. “It ain’t over till it’s over.” “Come to the fork in the road, take it.” Many of them. … I got a lot of ‘em. [Read more →]
