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Popularity: 2 Vote:	A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	How can you think and hit at the same time?
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I never said most of the things I said.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	I wish everybody had the drive he had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	In baseball, you don't know nothing.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	It ain't over till it's over.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	It ain't the heat, it's the humility.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	It gets late early out there.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	It's like deja-vu, all over again.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	Take it with a grin of salt.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	The future ain't what it used to be.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	The only color I don't have is navy brown.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	We have deep depth.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	We made too many wrong mistakes.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	You can observe a lot by just watching.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

Biography

Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (born May 12, 1925) is a former catcher and manager in Major League Baseball who played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees. He is one of only four players to be named the Most Valuable Player of the American League three times, and one of only six managers to lead both American and National League teams to the World Series. He currently lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

Born in an area of St. Louis called "The Hill", Berra was originally nicknamed Lawdie, a diminutive of his name Lawrence. He picked up his nickname from a friend who said he resembled a Hindu holy man (yogi) that they had seen in a movie. Young Mr. Berra apparently liked to sit on the ground while waiting for his turn to bat with his arms and legs crossed in a yoga-like position. (The Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Yogi Bear was named after Berra.) He began playing baseball in local American Legion leagues, where he learned the basics of play as a catcher. After rejecting an offer from the St. Louis Cardinals, he signed with the Yankees in 1942. His childhood friend Joe Garagiola was considered a better prospect by the Cardinals and was offered a better bonus, which led to the rejection.

He is generally considered to be one of the best catchers in history. In two recent (2004) approaches by sabermetricians Berra is ranked first by the Bill James Win Shares method and third by the Total Baseball Total Player Rating method.

Berra is also quite famous for his tendency toward malapropism and fracturing the English language in highly provocative, interesting ways; see Yogiisms.

Yogi was named Wisest Fool of the Past 50 Years by the Economist magazine in January 2005.

Playing career

Following a spell in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he played minor league baseball with the Newark Bears before being called up for 7 games in the major leagues in 1946. The following season he played 86 games for the Yankees, and he would play more than 100 in each of the following 14 years. During his 19-year career as a Yankee, the Bronx Bombers dominated baseball, appearing in 14 World Series and winning ten championships, both of which are records. Berra himself was a 15-time All-Star, and won the league's MVP award in 1951, 1954 and 1955. He caught Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, the only no-hitter ever thrown in postseason play.

In 1946, he wore uniform number 38 on the Yankees, switching to 35 the next year. In 1948, he changed to number 8, which became well-known as his number for the rest of his career on the Yankees and Mets. The number 8 was retired in 1972 by the Yankees, jointly honoring Berra and Bill Dickey, his predecessor as the Yankees' star catcher.

In 1972, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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