# Yogi Berra Quotes-Really?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogi-berra-quotes-really/48614>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 5, 2001, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogi-berra-quotes-really/48614 "2001-01-05T19:45:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogi-berra-quotes-really/48614/1 "2001-01-05T19:45:45Z")

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Over the years one hears of so many oxymoronic quotes attributed to Yogi Berra and occassionally one pops up that I never heard of before like

" I wish I had an answer to that, because I’m tired of answering that question"

**Do you suspect that a lot of these cute statements were never actually uttered by Yogi?** It seems to me that his name is just a catch-all for genre.

Go to [http://www.yogiberraclassic.org/quotes.htm](http://www.yogiberraclassic.org/quotes.htm) for a look at a list of his quotes.

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogi-berra-quotes-really/48614/2 "2001-01-05T21:11:07Z")

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Yogi himself answered this, “I didn’t say all the things I said.”