In addition, Allison is an active member and supporter of the Partners for Pollution Prevention initiative and Indiana Earth Day. We are proud to support the ALA’s vision for a world without lung disease by manufacturing solutions that improve fuel efficiency, reduce emissions and overall carbon footprint, leading to cleaner, healthier air.Īllison is a member of the Environmental Stewardship Program, designed to recognize and reward Indiana regulated entities for going above and beyond current environmental regulations. “Allison is humbled to receive this honor from the American Lung Association in Indiana,” said Ryan Milburn, Vice President, E-Mobility Engineering at Allison Transmission.Īs a responsible corporate citizen, we are dedicated to protecting human health, natural resources and the environment. Source: Allison TransmissionĪllison was honored for its efforts to create a healthy work environment for its employees and for the company’s focus on producing innovative solutions that promote lung health. I don’t know.Allison Transmission was presented the Legacy Award from the American Lung Association in Indiana at its annual Evening of Promise Gala, held at Victory Field in Indianapolis. 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. If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.ĥ0. If I didn’t make it in baseball, I won’t have made it workin’. Usually you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine.Ĥ8. You don’t have to swing hard to hit a home run. Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren’t allowed to play golf during the season only at spring training.Ĥ6. Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.Ĥ5. The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.Ĥ4. (On the 1973 Mets) We were overwhelming underdogs.Ĥ3. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.Ĥ0. He never did anything wrong on the field. I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.ģ9. I never said most of the things I said.ģ7. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?ģ6. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.ģ3. I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). What I don’t understand is how he lost five.ģ1. I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.ģ0. Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.Ģ8. You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.Ģ7. Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.Ģ4. If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.Ģ3. I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. How can you think and hit at the same time?ġ8. Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.ġ6. I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.ġ5. You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.ġ3. You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.ġ2. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.ġ1. Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.ġ0. Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.Ĩ. No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.Ħ. You can observe a lot by just watching.ĥ. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.Ģ. As he so perfectly put it: “I never said most of the things I said.” Here are 50 of our favorites.ġ. (At the same time, every one had some truth to it.)īerra-isms (colloquial expressions that lack logic) are now countless, and many of them are just attributed to Berra, even if he never actually said them. A sportswriters’ favorite, Berra had countless expressions and turns of phrase that were memorable because most of them didn’t make any sense. An 18-time All-Star, Berra appeared in 14 World Series as a member of the Yankees and won 10 of them.īerra’s contributions to MLB history are incalculable, but his legacy might be even better remembered for what he contributed to American language. Yankees legend Yogi Berra passed away in 2015, but on Opening Day, we can’t help but think of the great catcher and manager.
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