AP Yogi Berra stands at home plate during the last game at the old Yankee Stadium on September 21, 2008. Reuters Yogi Berra is embraced by pitcher Don Larsen as he leaps into Larsen's arms at the end of Game 5 of baseball's World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers at New York's Yankee Stadium. AP Yogi Berra along with family and friends celebrate Yogi's 90th birthday at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center in Montclair, New Jersey. Anthony Causi Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford sit in the golf cart they were brought out in for introductions in the Old Timers Ceremony before a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in 2013. Paul J. Bereswill AP Yogi Berra stands with Gary Carter during the last regular season game ever at Shea Stadium. Getty Images Anthony J. Causi Yogi Berra accompanied by the vice president's wife, Jill Biden (left), and first lady Michelle Obama before Game 1 of the 2009 World Series. Paul J. Bereswill From left: Joe Girardi, David Cone, Don Larsen, Yogi Berra, David Wells and Jorge Posada. Charles Wenzelberg Yogi Berra accepts a light from Yankees shortstop Phil Rizzuto after Berra handed out cigars to celebrate the birth of his son in the Yankees clubhouse in New York on Sept. 25, 1951. AP Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella (left) and New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra. AP Clockwise from top left: Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Vic Raschi, Allie Reynolds. Bob Olen Yogi Berra manages the New York Mets in the early 1970s. Getty Images Berra's baseball Hall of Fame plaque in Cooperstown, New York. Getty Images Yogi throws out the first pitch in 2010. EPA Yogi Berra makes a grab for a foul pop bunted by pitcher Tony Pena of the Kansas City Athletics at Yankee Stadium in September 1962. AP Yogi poses in spring training. Getty Images Yogi with wife Carmen WireImage Ron Guidry with Yogi Charles Wenzelberg Reggie Jackson with Yogi Berra Paul J. Bereswill Joe DiMaggio and Yogi Berra in 1955. Yogi Berra Reuters Yogi Berra shares a laugh with Derek Jeter in 2008. AP Charles Wenzelberg Ad Up Next Close 'Blindspot' and 'Life in Pieces' snag impressive debut ratings Two new shows got off to a promising start on... 26 View Slideshow Back Continue Share this: Facebook

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Yogi Berra, considered one of the best catchers in major league history, died of natural causes at the age of 90 Tuesday. The Yankees legend and Hall of Famer may be better known for the way he creatively butchered the English language, with what became known as Yogi-isms.

Here are 35:

1. “It ain’t over till it’s over.”

2. “It’s deja vu all over again.”

3. “I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4.”

4. “Never answer an anonymous letter.”

5. “We made too many wrong mistakes.”

6. “You can observe a lot by watching.”

7. “The future ain’t what it used to be.”

8. “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”

9. “It gets late early out here.”

10. “If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.”

11. “Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”

12. “Pair up in threes.”

13. “Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.”

14. “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”

15. “All pitchers are liars or crybabies.”

16. “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”

17. “Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.”

18. “He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.”

19. “I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.”

20. “I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won 25 games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.”

21. “I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.”

22. “I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.”

23. “I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”

24. “In baseball, you don’t know nothing.”

25. “I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?”

26. “I never said most of the things I said.”

27. “It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.”

28. “I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.”

29. “I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.”

30. “So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.”

31. “Take it with a grin of salt.”

32. (On the 1973 Mets) “We were overwhelming underdogs.”

33. “The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”

34. “You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”

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

Sources: Los Angeles Times, Baseball Almanac, Baseball Digest, Catcher in the Wry (Bob Uecker), Sports Illustrated