This Day in History: Yogi Berra was born on this day in 1925. While he may have been a great baseball player and coach, history will remember him most for his way with words and his paradoxical statements, such as "It ain't over 'til it's over."
As described on Wikipedia: "Berra was also well known for his impromptu pithy comments, malapropisms, and seemingly unintentional witticisms, known as 'Yogi-isms'. His 'Yogi-isms' very often took the form of either an apparent tautology or a contradiction, but often with an underlying and powerful message that offered not just humor, but also wisdom. Allen Barra has described them as 'distilled bits of wisdom which, like good country songs and old John Wayne movies, get to the truth in a hurry.'"
Other Yogi-isms are: "90 percent of baseball is mental; the other half is physical."
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
"Thank you for making this day necessary."
"It's déjà vu all over again."
"You can observe a lot by watching."
"Always go to other people's funerals; otherwise they won't go to yours."
"I really didn't say everything I said."
"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore"
"If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."
"We made too many wrong mistakes."
"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six."
"The future ain’t what it used to be."
"If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them."
"You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there."
"Even Napoleon had his Watergate."
"It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much."
"It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility."
Archie Bunker, a character in the TV sitcom All in the Family, also used malapropisms frequently: he refers, for example, to "off-the-docks Jews" (Orthodox Jews) and the "Women's Lubrication Movement" (rather than Liberation).
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