page_title: Yogi Berra
section_title: Examples
hierarchical_section_title: Yogi Berra / "Yogi-isms" / Examples
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the street sign where Yogi Berra lived in Montclair, NJ. The street is a loop that winds up where it started so it doesn't matter if you go to the left or right, Yogi's house was around the bend.
context_page_description: Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra was an American professional baseball catcher, who later took on the roles of manager and coach. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball, all but the last for the New York Yankees. He was an 18-time All-Star and won 10 World Series championships as a player—more than any other player in MLB history. Berra had a career batting average of .285, while hitting 358 home runs and 1,430 runs batted in. He is one of only six players to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award three times. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.
  Berra was a native of St. Louis and signed with the Yankees in 1943 before serving in the United States Navy as a gunner's mate in the Normandy landings during World War II, where he earned a Purple Heart. He made his major-league debut at age 21 in 1946 and was a mainstay in the Yankees' lineup during the team's championship years beginning in 1949 and continuing through 1962. Despite his short stature, Berra was a power hitter and strong defensive catcher.
context_section_description: "90 percent of baseball is mental; the other half is physical."
  On why he no longer went to Rigazzi's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
  "It ain't over till it's over." At the time he said this, in July 1973, Berra's Mets trailed the Chicago Cubs by 9½ games in the National League East. The Mets rallied to clinch the division title in their second-to-last game of the regular season, and eventually reach the World Series.
  When giving directions to Joe Garagiola Sr. to his New Jersey home, which was accessible by two routes: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
  At Yogi Berra Day at Sportsman Park in St. Louis: "Thank you for making this day necessary."
  "It's déjà vu all over again." Berra explained that this quote originated when he witnessed Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris repeatedly hitting back-to-back home runs in the Yankees' seasons in the early 1960s.
  "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."
caption: If you see the fork in the road... It doesn't matter whether you go left or right, you would wind up in front of Yogi's House. It's at the half way point.
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