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.
— Yogi Berra
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)
— Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
— Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes, Hyperion, 2002, , p. 163.
— Yogi Berra
Context: 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.
— Yogi Berra
You Can Observe a Lot by Watching: What I've Learned About Teamwork From the Yankees and Life, John Wiley & Sons, 2008,
— Yogi Berra
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes, Hyperion, 2002, , 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, , 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/
— Yogi Berra
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes, Hyperion, 2002, , 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.
— Yogi Berra
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).
— Yogi Berra
The Yogi Book. New York: Workman Publishing. 1997. , p. 16
Variant: It's so crowded, nobody goes there.
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, , 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/
— Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, , 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.)
Variant: Ninety percent of this game is mental, and the other half is physical.
