From the kids on the neighborhood Stag Athletic Club baseball team on the Hill. We went to a movie one afternoon, and there was one of those yogi characters in the picture. Coming out of the joint, one of the kids looked at me, started laughing, and said: "Hey, Berra walks just like that yogi in the movie." I've been Yogi ever since.
As quoted in "Yogi Credits Dickey For His Climb" by Harry Grayson, in The Hendersonville Times-News (Thursday, November 22, 1951), p. 8.
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