Clinton mourns Yogi Berra

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says she is saddened by the death of baseball legend Yogi Berra.

“’Baseball is 90 percent mental – the other half is physical,’” Clinton tweeted Wednesday, quoting one of the Hall of Fame catcher’s many famous aphorisms.

“Yogi gave everything 140 percent,” she wrote. “We’ll miss him. My prayers are with his family.”

{mosads}Berra died of natural causes at his home in New Jersey on Tuesday. The former New York Yankees star was 90.

“While we mourn the loss of our father, grandfather and great-grandfather, we know he is at peace with mom,” Berra’s family said in a statement, according to the San Jose Mercury News. “We celebrate his remarkable life, and are thankful he meant so much to so many. He will truly be missed.”

Berra spent 18 seasons in Major League Baseball, winning 10 World Series rings during his tenure in New York.

“We are deeply saddened by the loss of a Yankees legend and American hero, Yogi Berra,” the New York Yankees tweeted.

The baseball franchise added that players will wear Berra’s No. 8 on their left jersey sleeves during the Yankees’ away game against the Toronto Blue Jays Wednesday evening.

Clinton, a former senator from the Empire State, was not the only lawmaker mourning the athlete’s loss on Wednesday.

“Though born in a hard-scrabble St. Louis neighborhood, Yogi Berra was N.Y. all the way,” Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) tweeted. “[He was] plain-spoken, funny, hard-working and a real team player.”

Berra’s success on the baseball field is matched by his impact on America’s national collection of colloquialisms. The catcher is renowned for such sayings as “It ain’t over till it’s over” and “It’s déjà vu all over again.”