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Yogi Berra is the recipient of ten World Series rings, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, and was named to the All-Century Team. Married to the same woman for more than half a century he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.
Born: 12 May 1925, The Hill, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Died: 22 September 2015, West Caldwell, New Jersey, United States
Number: 8 (New York Yankees / Catcher)
Height: 1.73 m
Dates joined: 1965 (New York Mets), 1946 (New York Yankees)
Spouse: Carmen Berra (m. 1949–2014)
Hall of fame induction: 1972
List of Quotes
| Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true. |
| It’s like deja-vu, all over again. |
| Even Napoleon had his Watergate. |
| I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary. |
| He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious. |
| How can you think and hit at the same time? |
| Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. |
| I always thought that record would stand until it was broken. |
| Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. |
| I never said most of the things I said. |
| I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house. |
| I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question. |
| 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. |
| I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. |
| If people don’t want to come out to the ball park, nobody’s gonna stop ’em. |
| It gets late early out there. |
| It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility. |
| It ain’t over till it’s over. |
| In baseball, you don’t know nothing. |
| If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. |
| If you come to a fork in the road, take it. |
| If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer. |
| 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? |
| When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it. |
| It’s pretty far, but it doesn’t seem like it. |
| Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. |
| Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded. |
| Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting. |
| So I’m ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face. |
| It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. |
| The future ain’t what it used to be. |
| The other teams could make trouble for us if they win. |
| The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase. |
| There are some people who, if they don’t already know, you can’t tell ’em. |
| All pitchers are liars or crybabies. |
| We made too many wrong mistakes. |
| Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours. |
| You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six. |
| You can observe a lot by just watching. |
| You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours. |
| You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you. |
| You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there. |
| In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. |
| A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. |
| If the world was perfect, it wouldn’t be. |
| We have deep depth. |
| 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? |
| A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. |
| I never said most of the things I said. |
| I don’t mean to be funny. |
| Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. |
| I don’t blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to ’em? More power to ’em. |
