Zitate von Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra
Geburtstag: 12. Mai 1925
Todesdatum: 22. September 2015
Lawrence Peter „Yogi“ Berra war ein US-amerikanischer Baseballspieler und -manager. Er wurde u. a. durch seine humoristischen und teilweise provokativen Zitate, die sogenannten „Yogiisms“, berühmt.
Von 1946 bis 1965 spielte er professionell Baseball in den Major Leagues, die meiste Zeit bei den New York Yankees. Er begann als Catcher und gilt auch heute noch als einer der offensivstärksten Spieler aller Zeiten auf dieser Position. Gegen Ende seiner Karriere spielte er vorzugsweise im Outfield. Insgesamt stand er 2.120 Mal auf dem Feld und schlug 358 Home Runs. Kein anderer Spieler hat die World Series so oft erreicht und gewonnen wie Berra. Er stellte eine Vielzahl von Rekorden auf, von denen einige immer noch bestehen; er ist einer der vier Spieler, die dreimal Most Valuable Player der American League waren, und als Manager gelang es ihm sowohl ein National- als auch ein American-League-Team zur World Series zu führen, was außer ihm nur fünf weiteren Managern gelang. Berra ist Mitglied in der Baseball Hall of Fame, in die nur die besten Spieler aller Zeiten gewählt werden. Es wird vermutet, dass die bekannte Zeichentrickfigur Yogi Bär nach ihm benannt wurde; das wurde allerdings offiziell niemals bestätigt. Yogi Berra lebte zuletzt in Montclair, New Jersey, wo er im September 2015 im Alter von 90 Jahren starb. Wikipedia
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„Wenn du nicht weisst, wo du hinwillst, wirst du wahrscheinlich nicht dort ankommen“
zitiert in Kapitalismus 3.0: ein Leitfaden zur Wiederaneignung der Gemeinschaftsgüter; hrsg. von der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. - Hamburg : VSA, 2008 - ISBN 978-3-89965-312-0. Seite 170 - online (pdf)
„If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.“
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes, Hyperion, 2002, ISBN 0786867752, p. 154
Yogiisms
„It ain't over till it's over.“
The Yogi book (1997).
Yogiisms
Variante: It ain't over till it's over.
„Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.“
The Yogi Book. New York: Workman Publishing. 1997. ISBN 0-7611-1090-9, p. 16
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 81.
Found in newspapers from the early twentieth century. Not attributed to Berra until 1962. See http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/29/too-crowded/
Disputed, Misattributed
Variante: It's so crowded, nobody goes there.
„No matter where you go, there you are“
Quelle: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
„Always go to other people's funerals; otherwise they won't go to yours.“
Yogiisms
Quelle: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes, Hyperion, 2002, ISBN 0786867752, p. 163.
„I really didn't say everything I said. [... ] Then again, I might have said 'em, but you never know.“
The Yogi book: I really didn't say everything I said!, Workman Publishing, 1997, , p. 9.
Yogiisms
„You can observe a lot by watching.“
You Can Observe a Lot by Watching: What I've Learned About Teamwork From the Yankees and Life, John Wiley & Sons, 2008, ISBN 9780470079928
Yogiisms
„When you come to a fork in the road, take it.“
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes, Hyperion, 2002, ISBN 0786867752, p. 1
Also in What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 33
Berra says this is part of driving directions to his house in Montclair, New Jersey. There is a fork in the road, and whichever way you take, you will get to his house.
Found in newspapers from as early as 1913. The earliest known published evidence connecting the saying with Berra is from 1988. See http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/07/25/fork-road/
Disputed, Misattributed
„The future ain't what it used to be.“
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes, Hyperion, 2002, ISBN 0786867752, p. 159.
Paul Valery (1937): "The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.". Translated in English in 1948 in Our Destiny and Literature.
Disputed, Misattributed
„In theory there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is.“
Attributed in Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile - Things that Gain From Disorder (2012), p. 213.
The earliest known appearance of this quote in print is Walter J. Savitch, Pascal: An Introduction to the Art and Science of Programming (1984), where it is attributed as a "remark overheard at a computer science conference". It circulated as an anonymous saying for more than ten years before attributions to Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut and Yogi Berra began to appear (and later still to various others).
Disputed, Misattributed
„Ninety percent of this game is half-mental.“
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 45. This line has been attributed to Berra and also to Philadelphia Philles manager Danny Ozark. However, it was actually first said by Major League reserve outfielder Jim Wohlford, to whom the line was attributed in April 1974. See Devin Rose, Words of Wisdom - Former Big Leaguer Jim Wohlford - Took the words right out of his mouth http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-09-21/features/0309210321_1_notable-quotables-words-contracts, Chicago Tribune (September 21, 2003) (Retrieved March 4, 2016.) and Website of etymologist Barry Popik, Entry dated September 23, 2015 http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/baseball_is_ninety_percent_mental_and_the_other_half_is_physical/. (Retrieved March 4, 2016.)
Disputed
Variante: Ninety percent of this game is mental, and the other half is physical.
Quelle: The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said
„Okay you guys, pair up in threes!“
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, , p. 123.
Yogiisms
Variante: Pair up in threes.
„Deja Vu All Over Again“
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003,, p. 137.
Found in a poem by Jim Prior published in a Florida newspaper in 1962. Berra claimed to have made the remark around 1961; the earliest published evidence linking the saying to Berra does not appear until 1984. See http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/08/deja-vu-again/
Disputed
Variante: It's déjà vu all over again.
