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Here's some Yogi Berra shorts, there are so many.

While ordering a pizza one day, Yogi Berra was asked whether he would like it cut into four or eight slices. "Better make it four," he replied. "I don't think I can eat eight."

After a streaker took to the field during a game one day, Berra was asked about the perpetrator's gender. "I don't know," he replied. "Their face was covered by a bag."

One day a reporter assigned to cover a New York Yankees road trip was surprised to learn that Yogi Berra still traveled with a beat up old bag. "Why don't you treat yourself to a new suitcase?" he asked. "What for?" Yogi replied. "The only time I use it is when I travel."

One morning Yogi Berra had breakfast with a sports writer who later became incensed over the size of the bill. How, he asked, could a meal in a diner be so expensive? "That's because," Berra replied, "they have to import those English muffins."

After catcher Johnny Bench broke Yogi Berra's home run record for catchers, Berra sent a telegram to express his congratulations:
"Congratulations on breaking my record," it read. "I always thought the record would stand until it was broken."