GREAT SPORTING QUOTES OF OUR TIME

Some of the best sporting quotes

Some of the best sporting quotes

"This is like deja vu all over again . . . Baseball is 90 per cent mental - the other half is physical . . . If you come to a fork in the road, take it . . . You give 100 per cent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left . . . It ain't the heat, it's the humility . . . You should always go to other people's funerals - otherwise, they won't come to yours."

- Just a selection of legendary baseball player and manager Yogi Berra's finest utterances. He often disputed the "quotes" ("I didn't really say everything I said"), but he's been stuck with them, eg, when asked if New York Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly had exceeded expectations for the season, Berra replied: "I'd say he's done more than that."

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