Life advice, from unlikely sources.

[airbiscuit]

When I was in High School, I asked my friend about the birds and the bees talk he got from his dad. He said all his dad said was "Don't let it soak."

 

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[rontaki]

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If the "something" is to make music like the Grateful Dead did, no other group could do it. They weren't the best at what they did, they were the only ones who could, to borrow a quote from a local DJ.

 

[airbiscuit]

• "It ain't over 'til it's over."

• "Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical."

• On posterity: "I always thought that record would stand until it was broken."

• "You can observe a lot by watching."

• "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be."

• About a St. Louis restaurant: "No one goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

• About the effect of the sun in left field in the old Yankee Stadium during late-season games: "It gets late early out there."

• About Bill Dickey: "He learned me all his experience."

• "If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?"

• "We made too many wrong mistakes."

• "Pie a la mode, with ice cream."

• "I wish I had an answer to that, because I'm tired of answering that question."

• "You tell the stupidest questions."

• "Never answer an anonymous letter."

• On the great Sandy Koufax: "I can see how he won 25 games. What I don't understand is how he lost five."

• On lining up for a Spring Training drill: "Pair 'em up in threes."

• On the 1973 Mets: "We were overwhelming underdogs."

• The recording heard on the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center's phone: "This message won't be over 'til it's done."

• "In baseball, you don't know nothing."

• On being honored in his hometown of St. Louis during his rookie season: "I want to thank everybody for making this day necessary."

• "The future ain't what it used to be."

• "Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel."

• On pregame preparation: "I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4."

• On advising a young player trying to emulate the great Frank Robinson's swing: "If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."

• "I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."

• "All pitchers are liars or crybabies."

• On his hitting approach: "I can't think and hit at the same time."

• "So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face."

• "He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious."

• "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

• On economics: "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."

• "Always go to other people's funerals. Otherwise, they won't come to yours."

• And last but certainly not least: "It's deja vu all over again."

 

[EddieWalker]

Another one from the Marines.

Do something, anything. Then figure out if it was the right decision and adjust.

 

[garry1p]

From an old movie.

"I'll deal with it tomorrow".

 

[BackRoad]

- Life is 90% wanting to, and 10% knowing how...

- First we work, then we play...

- They'll never get your goat if they don't know where it's tied...
(meaning, poker face...never let anyone know if what they say gets to you.)

 

[bigtiller]

Work the corners first when you're strongest, then as you tire, do the edges because the center is the easiest.

 

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[dodge man]

Some good advice given in coach Jimmy V’s final speech.

 

[KennyG]

The guy we bought our house from had a wife and three daughters and one bathroom. He said there's a back door on the garage and a 55 gallon drum that nothing grows around for a reason.

I knew a man who worked at the LBJ ranch in Texas. LBJ was always a country boy. The master bedroom has a door to a patio. Lady Bird has some plants there that never seemed to grow well. After LBJ died, they flourished. She never understood why.

 

[MossRoad]

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He was one of my dad's high school teachers. I met him when I was maybe 6 years old after a UCLA VS Notre Dame basketball game. He stopped and talked to my dad for a bit. I had no clue who he was at the time.

 

[rontaki]

From an old movie.

"I'll deal with it tomorrow".

Never put off 'till tomorrow what you can put off untill the next day.
Confuseious

 

[garry1p]

I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man with no feet.

 

[RSKY]

The more up to date and realistic opposite to that statement is:
"Never raise another man's kids. You will always come last."

I will agree. But the uncle gave his advice in front of a large group of my older relatives. It was embarrassing to me and that was his intent.

RSKY

 

[bcp]

You always find things in the last place you look, so look there first.

Bruce

 

[RSKY]

Home is not where you lay your head at night.

Home is who lays their head beside yours.

RSKY

 

[MossRoad]

,,,

Home is who lays their head beside yours.

RSKY

That would be a cat...