Yogi Berra turned 90 last week. He was raised in St Louis and was a Hall of Fame baseball player for the New York Yankees. The following quotes are taken from a USA Today Sports article published on his birthday.

It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.

It’s déjà vu all over again.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Family friends came to Yogi’s house one year when a moratorium had been declared on sprinkling because of a drought. It was about 7 in the morning and the lawn was dripping. “Yogi, you’re not supposed to be sprinkling now.” “I don’t. It comes on automatically.”

A friend told this story: “We were playing golf one day, and I was below the hole with about a 4-foot putt and it was breaking to the right. Yogi was standing up above the hole looking down at it, and he said, ‘No, that doesn’t break right. It breaks left.’ So I putted the ball and it went right and I said, ‘See, Yogi, it went right. And he said, ‘Yeah, but I’m left-handed.’”

One day Yogi was reading a Superman comic book while his med student roommate Bobby Brown was reading a pathology textbook. They finished reading at the same time, and as Yogi tossed aside his comic, he said, “You can’t beat these Superman comics. How’d yours come out, Bobby?”

A sportswriter ridiculed Yogi, saying he was the ugliest player he ever saw. Yogi’s response: “So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone get a hit with his face.”

Yogi passed on his gift to his son Dale, who played with the Pirates. When asked how he and his dad were alike, Dale said, “All of our similarities are different.”