Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra
Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berrawas an American professional baseball catcher, manager, and coach who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball, all but the last for the New York Yankees. An 18-time All-Star and 10-time World Series champion as a player, Berra had a career batting average of .285, while compiling 358 home runs and 1,430 runs batted in. He is one of only five players to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award three times. Widely regarded as one...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth12 May 1925
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
You can't think and hit at the same time
You can observe a lot just by watching.
When I'm sittin' down to dinner with the family, stuff [another Yogiism] just pops out. And they'll say, 'Dad, you just said another one.' And I don't even know what the heck I said.
Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.
Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working.
I love baseball, I really do. I always told my Dad, I'm not gonna make it working... I like to play ball too much. Which I did. I played hard. You gotta work at this game. You really do. And its fun doing it if you do it the right way.
You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.
Records and achievements are made to be broken.
Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.
You can't make anybody do anything, if they don't want to.
If I had to do it all over again, I would do it all over again.
Failure is just another opportunity to start over.