Yogi Berra, one of baseball?s greatest catchers and characters, who as a player was a mainstay of 10 Yankee championship teams and as a manager led both the Yankees and Mets to the World Series ? but who may be more widely known as an ungainly but lovable cultural figure, issuing a seemingly limitless supply of unwittingly witty epigrams ? died Tuesday (9/22/15). He was 90.
On his approach to playing baseball: ''Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.''
On death: ''Always go to other people's funerals. Otherwise they won't go to yours.''
On being told he looked cool: ''You don't look so hot yourself.''
On economics: ''A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.''
On selecting a restaurant: ''Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.''
On how events sometimes seem to repeat themselves: ''It's deja vu all over again!''
On being asked what time it was: ''You mean now?''
On a spring training drill: ''Pair off in threes.''
On baseball attendance: ''If people don't come to the ballpark, how are you gonna stop them?''
On a slipping batting average: ''Slump? I ain't in no slump. ... I just ain't hitting.''
On travel directions: ''When you come to a fork in the road take it.''
On battling the shadows in left field at Yankee Stadium: ''It gets late early out there.''
On fan mail: ''Never answer an anonymous letter.''
On learning: ''You can observe a lot by watching.''
On his team's diminishing pennant chances: ''It ain't over `till it's over.''
On the fractured syntax attributed to him: ''I really didn't say everything I said.''
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On his approach to playing baseball: ''Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.''
On death: ''Always go to other people's funerals. Otherwise they won't go to yours.''
On being told he looked cool: ''You don't look so hot yourself.''
On economics: ''A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.''
On selecting a restaurant: ''Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.''
On how events sometimes seem to repeat themselves: ''It's deja vu all over again!''
On being asked what time it was: ''You mean now?''
On a spring training drill: ''Pair off in threes.''
On baseball attendance: ''If people don't come to the ballpark, how are you gonna stop them?''
On a slipping batting average: ''Slump? I ain't in no slump. ... I just ain't hitting.''
On travel directions: ''When you come to a fork in the road take it.''
On battling the shadows in left field at Yankee Stadium: ''It gets late early out there.''
On fan mail: ''Never answer an anonymous letter.''
On learning: ''You can observe a lot by watching.''
On his team's diminishing pennant chances: ''It ain't over `till it's over.''
On the fractured syntax attributed to him: ''I really didn't say everything I said.''
GL
