The Yogi Book: "I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said!" »

YOGI BERRA is one of America's most beloved sports personalities. On the field, his exploits with the New York Yankees made him a vital part of the most successful sports franchise ever. Off the field, his wit and humor have made him a unique and ubiquitous part of American culture.

In celebration of America's beloved baseball legend Yogi Berra, here are all the famous Yogisms, those legendary words that are among the most popularly quoted sayings ever.

NY Times Book Review

You can imagine the problems of misattribution and misquotation Yogi Berra had in his life: "I really didn't say everything I said." But since he did say a lot of what he said, he has put it all in a book so that, as someone else said, you could look it up. Some of the items in The Yogi Book are about baseball: "Ninety percent of the game is half mental," for one, and "The other teams could make trouble for us if they win." Some are about life in general: "Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours" And a puzzling number are about transportation problems: "You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going 'cause you might not get there" and "We're lost, but we're making good time." The Yogi-isms, all in enormous print that would be annoying if Yogi Berra were an annoying person, are accompanied by pictures, ancillary jokes and helpful contex. (Did he really not say everything he said? He thinks not, but "then again, I might have said'em, but you never know.") In all this are reminders, not pointed by any means, that being a baseball player was once a job held by more or less normal people. "Don't get me right, I'm just asking," for instance, was a line Berra delivered in contract negotiations with the Yankee owner Dan Topping. "We didn't have agents back then," Berra explains, "and I didn't want to insult him." Anyway, there's no excuse not to get him right. When you come to a fork in the road, take it. And thank you for making this day necessary