LOL: Baseball's Funniest Notable Quotables

The Old Professor, Casey Stengel, gives Mickey Mantle (7) batting tips and tells him he wasn’t born at 70. And that’s a young Yogi Berra (8) sighting at the right.

In my latest copy of the world’s largest circulation manage, aka AARP Magazine, they had a Power of 50 page devoted to baseball’s 50 funniest notable quotables.

Well, here’s my favorite 10—along with another Yogi-ism for the wrap.

Enjoy. And send me your favorites.

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“Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.”

– Joe Adcock

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“If a horse won’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it.”

– Dick Allen on artificial turf

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“It ain’t nothing’ till I call it.”

– Bill Klem, umpire

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“Sure I played, did you think I was born at age 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?”

Casey Stengel to Mickey Mantle

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“All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a doubleheader.”

– George Will

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“Ninety percent of this game is half mental.”

– Yogi Berra

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“There’s no crying in baseball.”

– Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own

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“I’d be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.”

– Pete Rose

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“The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then to pick it up.”

– Bob Uecker

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“I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.”

– Bob Lemon

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“It ain’t over till it’s over.”

– Yogi Berra

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