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Mini-contest 2012: "Yogi Berra Quotes" » English to German » Entry by Andreas Pompl


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Translation by Andreas Pompl (#11426)

- "I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous."

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

- "You can observe a lot just by watchin'."

- "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

- "I can't concentrate when I'm thinking."

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

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

- "We're lost, but we're making good time."

- "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."

- "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."

- "It's like deja-vu, all over again."

- "It ain't over till it's over."

- Mrs. Lindsay: "You certainly look cool." Yogi Berra: "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself."

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


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Horst Huber (X)
Horst Huber (X)
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Should have won Aug 20, 2014

Yogi Berra's sound-bites have the zaniness of Karl Valentin. This version, on the whole, captures it better than the "winning" entry.

 

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