Two days ago we lost an American Icon of Baseball.

 

  For non-Americans:

Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (May 12, 1925 – September 22, 2015) was an American professional baseball catcher, manager, and coach who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) (1946–63, 1965), all but the last for the New York Yankees. An 18-time All-Star and 10-time World Series champion as a player, Berra had a career batting average of .285, while compiling 358 home runs and 1,430 runs batted in. He is one of only five players to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award three times. Widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history,^[1] he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.

 

Yogi was known for his witticisms:  Can you tell what he said versus what Mark Twain said.  Take this Gaurdian test and find out.;  Yogi's mind definitely worked in a different, but good way.

 

. http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/sep/24/yogi-berra-mark-twain-who-said-it

There are some athletes that become universally liked by the fans and Yogi was one of them.  I'm not so sure that the goofy things he said had much to do with that as just his general positive attitude.  He was somewhat like a grinning and mischievous imp everybody liked.

 

Forever the wordsmith (even he had no clue what he was about to say):

 

"Nobody comes here anymore, it's too crowded."

 

"The future ain't what it used to be."

 

"Cut my pie into four pieces, I don't think I could eat eight."

 

"I never said most of the things I said."

Some of his expressions do catch on like "deja vu all over again". One of my friends doesn't quite get the subtlety   of that nor the humor it conveys.