2015年09月24日 曾文祺
一代名捕尤基貝拉昨天結束90年璀璨人生，他生前的風範、滿是哲理的語錄，溫暖了美國超過半世紀。而今，全美悼念他，美國總統歐巴馬真摯的說：「全美都會想念你的，你的資產永流傳。」
今天，所有大聯盟球場、30支球隊，都有緬懷貝拉（Yogi Berra）的行動。每場賽事開打前為他默哀，他的洋基隊小老弟們都在球衣的左袖繡上永遠的「8」號圖樣；紐約帝國大廈在夜裡亮起象徵洋基隊的藍光，來懷念一代傳奇。
篤定進入名人堂的前洋基隊長吉特，球員生涯得到許多來自貝拉的啟發，吉特黯然的說：「他是摯友，更是神話！」
1950年代洋基傳奇捕手尤基貝拉昨天辭世。他曾3度獲選美聯最有價值球員，10次幫助洋基贏得世界大賽冠軍，總教練生涯也有3冠。他那句「比賽結束之前都還沒結束」（It aint over till its over），早已成全美的箴言。
貝拉19年球員生涯參加過14次世界大賽，10度奪冠，兩項都是大聯盟難破的障礙。他生涯18次入選明星賽、2150安、358支全壘打；他在1956年和拉森搭檔，攜手完成世界大賽史上唯一一場完全比賽，至今仍是傳奇一幕。
1956年引退的貝拉，在1972年以85.61％的得票率進入名人堂，洋基也在當年將他的8號球衣引退。這些年，仍常見貝拉協助洋基小老弟們，去年退休的洋基隊長吉特就屢屢向他請益。
貝拉也是位哲人，說過許多名言，包括「90%的棒球比賽有一半是心理戰」、「如果這是完美的世界，那就不會完美」、「要去別人的喪禮，不然他們不會來你的」。(中時電子報)
The 50 greatest Yogi Berra quotes
1. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
2. You can observe a lot by just watching.
3. It ain’t over till it’s over.
4. It’s like déjà vu all over again.
5. No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.
6. Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.
7. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.
8. Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.
9. We made too many wrong mistakes.
10. Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
11. You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
12. You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.
13. I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
14. Never answer an anonymous letter.
15. Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.
16. How can you think and hit at the same time?
17. The future ain’t what it used to be.
18. I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better.
19. It gets late early out here.
20. If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.
21. We have deep depth.
22. Pair up in threes.
23. Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.
24. You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.
25. All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
26. Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
27. Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
28. He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.
29. It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
30. I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.
31. I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.
32. I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
33. I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
34. In baseball, you don’t know nothing.
35. I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
36. I never said most of the things I said.
37. It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.
38. If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.
39. I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.
40. So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.
41. Take it with a grin of salt.
42. (On the 1973 Mets) We were overwhelming underdogs.
43. The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
44. Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
45. Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren’t allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.
46. You don’t have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it’ll go.
47. I’m lucky. Usually you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine.
48. If I didn’t make it in baseball, I won’t have made it workin’. I didn’t like to work.
49. If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.
50. A lot of guys go, ‘Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.’ I tell ’em, ‘I don’t know any.’ They want me to make one up. I don’t make ’em up. I don’t even know when I say it. They’re the truth. And it is the truth. I don’t know.
一代名捕尤基貝拉昨天結束90年璀璨人生，他生前的風範、滿是哲理的語錄，溫暖了美國超過半世紀。而今，全美悼念他，美國總統歐巴馬真摯的說：「全美都會想念你的，你的資產永流傳。」
今天，所有大聯盟球場、30支球隊，都有緬懷貝拉（Yogi Berra）的行動。每場賽事開打前為他默哀，他的洋基隊小老弟們都在球衣的左袖繡上永遠的「8」號圖樣；紐約帝國大廈在夜裡亮起象徵洋基隊的藍光，來懷念一代傳奇。
篤定進入名人堂的前洋基隊長吉特，球員生涯得到許多來自貝拉的啟發，吉特黯然的說：「他是摯友，更是神話！」
1950年代洋基傳奇捕手尤基貝拉昨天辭世。他曾3度獲選美聯最有價值球員，10次幫助洋基贏得世界大賽冠軍，總教練生涯也有3冠。他那句「比賽結束之前都還沒結束」（It aint over till its over），早已成全美的箴言。
貝拉19年球員生涯參加過14次世界大賽，10度奪冠，兩項都是大聯盟難破的障礙。他生涯18次入選明星賽、2150安、358支全壘打；他在1956年和拉森搭檔，攜手完成世界大賽史上唯一一場完全比賽，至今仍是傳奇一幕。
1956年引退的貝拉，在1972年以85.61％的得票率進入名人堂，洋基也在當年將他的8號球衣引退。這些年，仍常見貝拉協助洋基小老弟們，去年退休的洋基隊長吉特就屢屢向他請益。
貝拉也是位哲人，說過許多名言，包括「90%的棒球比賽有一半是心理戰」、「如果這是完美的世界，那就不會完美」、「要去別人的喪禮，不然他們不會來你的」。(中時電子報)
The 50 greatest Yogi Berra quotes
1. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
2. You can observe a lot by just watching.
3. It ain’t over till it’s over.
4. It’s like déjà vu all over again.
5. No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.
6. Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.
7. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.
8. Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.
9. We made too many wrong mistakes.
10. Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
11. You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
12. You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.
13. I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
14. Never answer an anonymous letter.
15. Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.
16. How can you think and hit at the same time?
17. The future ain’t what it used to be.
18. I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better.
19. It gets late early out here.
20. If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.
21. We have deep depth.
22. Pair up in threes.
23. Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.
24. You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.
25. All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
26. Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
27. Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
28. He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.
29. It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
30. I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.
31. I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.
32. I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
33. I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
34. In baseball, you don’t know nothing.
35. I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
36. I never said most of the things I said.
37. It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.
38. If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.
39. I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.
40. So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.
41. Take it with a grin of salt.
42. (On the 1973 Mets) We were overwhelming underdogs.
43. The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
44. Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
45. Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren’t allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.
46. You don’t have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it’ll go.
47. I’m lucky. Usually you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine.
48. If I didn’t make it in baseball, I won’t have made it workin’. I didn’t like to work.
49. If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.
50. A lot of guys go, ‘Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.’ I tell ’em, ‘I don’t know any.’ They want me to make one up. I don’t make ’em up. I don’t even know when I say it. They’re the truth. And it is the truth. I don’t know.
