Quoted in Bruce Bohle, Home Book of American Quotations (1967). In The Yogi Book (1998), Berra traces this comment, which he views as the original Yogiism, to Yogi Berra Day in 1947, when he was honored by his friends in St. Louis, Mo.
Quoted in Wash. Post, 26 Sept. 1977. Berra notes in The Yogi Book (1998): "That was my answer to a reporter when I was managing the New York Mets in July 1973.We were about nine games out of first place.We went on to win the division." Berra was quoted using the similar expression "You're not out of it until you're out of it" in N.Y. Times, 30 June 1974. See Ralph Carpenter 1