Here are some of his more memorable quotes: - "It ain't over till it's over" - "It's like deja-vu all over again" - "It ain't the heat; it's the humility" - "Baseball is 90 percent mental -- the other half is physical" - " I never said most of the things I said... Take it with a grin of salt" - "If you don't know where you're going, you might end up some place else" - "He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious" - "You can observe a lot by watching" - "The future ain't what it used to be" - "Never answer an anonymous letter" - "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" - "I always thought that record would stand until it was broken" - "If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be" - "Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours"
Brilliant. Reminds me of a swimming teacher we had at school, who once instructed, "half of you in the shallow end, half of you in the deep end and the rest sit at the side."