{"id":1222,"date":"2017-01-13T12:14:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T17:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2020-04-23T23:35:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T03:35:57","slug":"yogi-berra-%e2%80%9cwhat-i%e2%80%99ve-learned%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1222","title":{"rendered":"Yogi Berra: \u201cWhat I\u2019ve learned\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Yogi_Berra-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Yogi_Berra-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Yogi_Berra.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>The Yankee great on baseball, Yogi-isms and, well, the moniker \u201cYogi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If I didn\u2019t make it in baseball, I won\u2019t have made it workin\u2019. I didn\u2019t like to work.<\/li>\n<li>For Christmas, I asked dad, \u201cI want a baseball bat, a glove, and a ball.\u201d He said, \u201cWhich one of the three do ya want?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>I told my dad, \u201cDad, you realize if your other two sons had played ball, you\u2019da been a millionaire.\u201d He said, \u201cBlame your mother.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>You don\u2019t have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it\u2019ll go.<\/li>\n<li>It don\u2019t have to be a perfect pitch. If you see it good, swing at it. But if you can\u2019t hit it, lay off it.<\/li>\n<li>New York is always the place to play.<\/li>\n<li>When I caught, I\u2019d look at the hitter, the way he strides. He strides in, then ya get the ball inside to him. I watched \u2018em pretty good.<\/li>\n<li>Joe was the best player I ever saw. He didn\u2019t do anything wrong. DiMaggio I never saw slide. He just was there. It\u2019s funny \u2013 I never seen him slide for a ball. He run the bases good. Every damn thing\u2026<\/li>\n<li>I was playin\u2019 American Legion Baseball. Bobby Hoffman, used to play with the Giants, we were on the same team. We never had dugouts. We\u2019re sittin\u2019 on the ground. I always had my legs crossed and my arms folded. Bobby said, \u201cYou look like a yogi.\u201d And it stuck.<\/li>\n<li>My wife, she calls me Yogi. If she calls me Lawrence, I know she\u2019s mad at me.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of guys go, \u201cHey Yogi, say a Yogi-ism.\u201d I tell \u2018em, \u201cI don\u2019t know any.\u201d They want me to make one up. I don\u2019t make \u2018em up. I don\u2019t even know when I say it. They\u2019re the truth. And it is the truth. I don\u2019t know.<\/li>\n<li>I get a kick out of some guys. They look at ya and say, \u201cYou look like Yogi Berra.\u201d I say, \u201cYeah, a lotta people tell me that.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From a 2001 <em>Esquire<\/em> magazine column \u201cWhat I\u2019ve learned\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George, providing reliable PR &amp; GR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankee great on baseball, Yogi-isms and, well, the moniker \u201cYogi.\u201d &nbsp; If I didn\u2019t make it in baseball, I won\u2019t have made it workin\u2019. I didn\u2019t like to work. For Christmas, I asked dad, \u201cI want a baseball bat, a glove, and a ball.\u201d He said, \u201cWhich one of the three do ya want?\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[81,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8971,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/8971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}