I never said most of the things I said.

A self-referential joke about misquotation and the way celebrity one-liners take on a life of their own. Attributed to Yogi Berra—famous for “Yogi-isms”—the line plays on the paradox that his public persona is built from sayings that are often repeated, embellished, or even invented by others. The humor comes from the contradiction: denying having said “most of the things” he supposedly said, while saying it in the same deadpan, circular style people associate with him. It also gestures toward a broader truth about oral culture and media: once a quip becomes part of folklore, authorship and exact wording become unstable.

I never said half the things I said.
I never said most of the things I’ve been quoted as saying.
I really didn’t say everything I said.