Yogi Berra
description: an American baseball catcher, coach, and manager known for his humorous and paradoxical quotes
151 results
Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations
by Garson O'Toole · 1 Apr 2017 · 376pp · 91,192 words
well-known person strives mightily to prevent it by carefully giving proper credit. HOST Mark Twain, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, Dorothy Parker, and Yogi Berra are quotation superstars. Personas of this type are so vibrant and attractive that they become hosts for quotations they never uttered. A remark formulated by
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York: Fireside, 2003), 42. 5. Dennis Lythgoe, “Ulrich Touts Women in History,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT), October 21, 2007, E10. Accessed in NewsBank. Yogi Berra was a brilliant baseball player who became a successful coach and manager. He appeared in the World Series many times, and his teams often won
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Hollywood, Ukie said, “No wonder nobody ever comes in here—it’s too crowded.” In April 1962 the Cleveland Plain Dealer assigned the joke to Yogi Berra.13 A Yogi Berraism: At Ft. Lauderdale Yogi was listening to his teammates talk about a restaurant in the area. Said Yogi, “Aw, nobody ever
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the story was changed—the restaurant was in New York instead of Fort Lauderdale.14 New York Yankee coach Jim Hegan attributes this story to Yogi Berra, the new resident genius of the Bombers. Berra was asked if a certain restaurant in New York was as popular as ever. “Naw,” quoth Yogi
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were anonymous. The comedians Rags Ragland and Ukie Sherin employed the quip, as did the writer John McNulty. In addition, there is some evidence that Yogi Berra employed the joke; however, in all documented cases, the jest was already in circulation. Notes: In memoriam: thanks to my brother Stephen, who greatly enjoyed
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, 1986, sports section, 92. Accessed in ProQuest. 2. William Safire, “Mr. Bonaprop,” On Language, New York Times, February 15, 1987, A8. Accessed in ProQuest. 3. Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book: I Really Didn’t Say Everything I Said! (New York: Workman, 1998), 30. Verified in hard copy. 4. Clifford Terry, “Gimmicks Jam
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on Sports, Mansfield News Journal (Mansfield, OH), December 29, 1963, 20. Accessed in NewspaperARCHIVE.com. 15. Roy Blount Jr., “Yogi: As a Reincarnated Yankee Skipper, Yogi Berra Is Working for George Steinbrenner,” Sports Illustrated, April 2, 1984. Accessed in Sports Illustrated Archive. 16. Joe Sharkey, “Commencement Ain’t Over Till It’s
The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong With Banking and What to Do About It
by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig · 15 Feb 2013 · 726pp · 172,988 words
the total returns of the corporation as a pie and the funding mix as a way of cutting the pie into different pieces. Baseball legend Yogi Berra is said to have once asked a waiter to cut his pizza into four slices, saying, “I am not hungry enough for eight today.”19
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special device for adding cheese in the process of cutting, the pie would have had more substance when it was cut into eight pieces, so Yogi Berra would indeed have needed to be hungrier to eat an eight-slice pie than to eat a four-slice pie.) Similarly, if the mix of
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’s why they say it’s invaluable. Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, part of the credit rating agency Moody’s, April 2009 YOGI BERRA’S SUGGESTION that the content of a pizza might depend on how it is cut is absurd. Yet when banks borrow excessively and economize on
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be avoided, losses from investments will be a concern for shareholders, but there will be no expenses for bankruptcy lawyers and courts. In terms of Yogi Berra’s pizza, the bankruptcy costs reduce the amount of the total “pie” that is available to investors. Anticipating that a corporation’s assets will be
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, and Simon Gilchrist. 1996. “The Financial Accelerator and the Flight to Quality.” Review of Economics and Statistics 78 (1): 1–15. Berra, Yogi. 1998. The Yogi Berra Book. Little Falls, NJ: LTD Enterprises. Better Markets. 2012. “The Costs of the Financial Crisis.” Available at http://bettermarkets.com/sites/default/files/Cost%20Of
Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior
by Jonah Berger · 13 Jun 2016 · 261pp · 72,277 words
2. A Horse of a Different Color Why successful athletes have older siblings . . . The drive for distinction . . . How ordering with others can ruin your meal . . . Yogi Berra was right . . . Independence with a side of cranberry sauce . . . Why other peoples’ kids look the same but yours are completely unique . . . Why Sports Illustrated sells
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families. Hall of Famer Casey Stengel drove taxicabs. Pitcher Walter Johnson dug postholes for a telephone company. Shortstop Phil Rizzuto worked at a clothing store. Yogi Berra had a job as a greeter and headwaiter at Ruggeri’s, one of the best-known Italian restaurants in St. Louis. Even after he led
Comedy Writing Secrets
by Mel Helitzer and Mark Shatz · 14 Sep 2005
isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Every Tom, Dick and Harry is named William. Include me out. Baseball managers Casey Stengel and Yogi Berra were credited with malaprops that helped to cemented their immortality in reference books. You wouldn't have won if we had
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. —Yogi Berra 70 Comedy Writing Secrets If people don't want to come to the ballpark, nobody can stop them. —Casey Stengel Baseball is 90 percent mental.
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The other half is physical. —Yogi Berra That restaurant is so popular, nobody goes there anymore. —Yogi Berra Humorists bless politicians who make their jobs easy by fracturing the English language, as did former Vice President Dan Quayle. His
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example, there's nothing more important than sales training speeches, but astute sales managers have learned to avoid making them deadly with titles like these. Yogi Berra Was Right—It Ain't Over 'til It's Over As Alexander Bell Said: "What D'ya Mean My Three Minutes Are Up?" Caterpillars and
Thinking in Bets
by Annie Duke · 6 Feb 2018 · 288pp · 81,253 words
experience by watching other people do stuff. There are more than seven billion other people on the planet who do stuff all the time. As Yogi Berra said, “You can observe a lot by watching.” Watching is an established learning method. There is an entire industry devoted to collecting other people’s
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, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/28/7th-republican-debate-transcript-annotated-who-said-what-and-what-it-meant. People watching: Yogi Berra has proven a fertile source for quotes on such a variety of subjects that it’s reasonable to wonder whether he actually said all the
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 1 Jan 2001 · 111pp · 1 words
divinity has [guaranteed] continued happiness until the end we may call happy.” The modern equivalent has been no less eloquently voiced by the baseball coach Yogi Berra, who seems to have translated Solon’s outburst from the pure Attic Greek into no less pure Brooklyn English with “it ain’t over until
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, in a less dignified manner, with “it ain’t over until the fat lady sings.” In addition, aside from his use of the vernacular, the Yogi Berra quote presents an advantage of being true, while the meeting between Croesus and Solon was one of those historical facts that benefited from the imagination
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. Shiller, as a scientist, did not claim to be a prophet or one of the entertainers who comment on the markets on the evening news. Yogi Berra would have had a better time with his confident comment on the fat lady not having sung yet. I could not understand what Shiller, untrained
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may be faulty. However, the statement that there is a black swan is possible to make. A theory cannot be verified. To paraphrase baseball coach Yogi Berra again, past data has a lot of good in it, but it is the bad side that is bad. It can only be provisionally accepted
How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 1997 · 913pp · 265,787 words
but backgammon, with a throw of the dice at every turn. As a result, it is hard to make predictions, especially about the future (as Yogi Berra allegedly said). But in a universe with any regularities at all, decisions informed by the past are better than decisions made at random. That has
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
by Warren E. Buffett and Lawrence A. Cunningham · 2 Jan 1997 · 219pp · 15,438 words
turned up in the RJR bidding contest: Jay Pritzker, who was part of a First Boston group that made a tax-oriented offer. To quote Yogi Berra; "It was déjà vu all over again." During most of the time when we normally would have been purchasers of RJR, our activities in the
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occur when his own stock is selling far below intrinsic business value. This state of affairs produces a moment of truth. At that point, as Yogi Berra has said, "You can observe a lot just by watching." For shareholders then will find which objective the management truly prefers-expansion of domain or
Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough
by Sendhil Mullainathan · 3 Sep 2014 · 305pp · 89,103 words
. Customers can get disgruntled and not come back. You don’t want it said of you, “Nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded,” as Yogi Berra put it. To understand what might be done—raise prices? expand?—Kimes conducted a thorough statistical analysis, which gave her a snapshot more precise than
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation
by Blake J. Harris · 12 May 2014
remarks, to convey one of the more important pieces of news you’re likely to hear while at E3. Tomorrow, May 12, 1995, will be Yogi Berra’s birthday. His seventieth. So we all need to prepare ourselves for a heavier-than-usual onslaught of Yogiisms from radio and TV commentators. If
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Sega might now have a global name, it should think long and hard about what its reputation was. “Lastly, I wanted to come back to Yogi Berra,” Kalinske said, relishing his last moments onstage. Would he be back next year? Five years from now? Ten? So much of that would depend on
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