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When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees. — Bernie Williams

Yankee Stadium is a mistake: Not mine - the Giants'. — Jacob Ruppert

I don't want to be gone. I don't want to be somewhere else. I consider myself a Yankee. — Jorge Posada

The thing that means the most to me is being remembered as a Yankee, because that's what I've always wanted to be, was to be a Yankee. — Derek Jeter

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North. — Randy Harrison

It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half of us were nuts by the end of a season. — Jerry Coleman

I'm reminded on a monthly basis that I'm a damn Yankee." "What's makes you a damn Yankee?" "It's a Yankee who comes down and stays." He — Anne McAneny

George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother. — Christopher Buckley

Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver. — Mary Karr

I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan. — Curt Schilling

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life — John Cheever

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention. — John Quincy Adams

When I take the mound in Yankee Stadium I feel like my stuff is going to be better than ever. — Andy Pettitte

You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium. — Nick Johnson

I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life. — Johnny Damon

We are all doomed, Yankee detective. One day I will come into work and see myself lying on this slab. — Carroll Bryant

I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy. — Daddy Yankee

It's great to be young and a Yankee! — Waite Hoyt

Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win. — Phil Rizzuto

India Lima Yankee — Teresa Mummert

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what 'tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one. — Pat Conroy

This is the derivation of that old Yankee proverb that if you can sell a book, you can move sixty tons of weaponry three hundred miles in winter — Sarah Vowell

I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself. — Daddy Yankee

I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers. — Rudy Giuliani

Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart. — John Fogerty

I know only two tunes. One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' the other isn't. — Ulysses S. Grant

It has a way of eroding barriers-that famous Yankee reticence-which would otherwise be impregnable. — Stephen King

After they remodeled Yankee Stadium I didn't feel that the ghosts were there anymore. It just wasn't the same. — Mickey Mantle

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else. — Reggie Jackson

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me. — Derek Jeter

Putting the Yankee uniform on every day. — Joe DiMaggio

If you saw that Yankee pitching too often, there would be a lot of guys doing different jobs. — Joe Rudi

I had a dream about you last night ... Well I say dream I mean nightmare ... you were a Yankee fan. — Nicole McKay

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper. — James Caan

I've never been an actor on Broadway, but it feels like you're on a stage when you play at Yankee Stadium. And that's the feeling I've always had. — Derek Jeter

The Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness combined to heal the wounds of four years of fratricidal strife ... — Robert Penn Warren

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true. — Derek Jeter

I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee. — Jorge Posada

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages. — Marsden Hartley

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium. — Reggie Jackson

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tucker, you tell that girl when I offer to have a brandy with a Yankee, that Yankee better drink. — Nora Roberts

Getting your education is an advantage you have. — Daddy Yankee

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer. — Mickey Mantle

When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher. — Tommy Lasorda

I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse. — Daddy Yankee

In those days people moved more slowly down there, and Arch, who did just opposite, might almost have been taken for a Yankee. — Gerald Clarke

We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.' — Daddy Yankee

I'm so excited about the new [Yankee] stadium! — Mark Teixeira

'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America. — Daddy Yankee

I'm proud to be a New York Yankee. — Jacoby Ellsbury

Why would she do that?"
"Because she's a Yankee - a Maine Yankee, the worst kind. On a given day, they can make the Irish look logical. — Stephen King

I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first. — Daddy Yankee

He was a regular Yankee from New England. The Yankees are noted for making the most cruel overseers. — William Wells Brown

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day. — Nomar Garciaparra

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys. — Bert Campaneris

I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium. — Henny Youngman

The way he talked sounded part Yankee, part foreign, like one of those friendly Irish policeman in the old movies: Ouch, mind you! — Barbara Kingsolver

The great thing about being a Yankee is that youre always a Yankee. — Derek Jeter

Beware of a Yankee when he is feeding, — Frederick Douglass

Yankee Stadium was the only thing we had in the Bronx. It was an institution. — Penny Marshall

Freedom!' Mrs. Lynde sniffed. 'Freedom! Don't talk like a Yankee, Anne. — L.M. Montgomery

The word "Yankee" itself, I was informed, came from that simplest of Dutch names - Jan. — Joseph O'Neill

When you go hard your nays become yays. Yankee stadium with Jays and Kanyes. — Nicki Minaj

Yankee Stadium is my favorite stadium; I'm not going to lie to you. There's a certain feel you get in Yankee Stadium. — Derek Jeter

I may not have been the best Yankee to put on the pinstripes, but I am the proudest. — Billy Martin

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out. — Tim McCarver

Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down. — Bob Feller

No," I said. "You're not a Yankee imperialist?" she prodded. "Certainly not," I told her. "I come from Ireland." "Holland," she said, frowning. "No, — Valerie Hemingway

YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. — Ambrose Bierce

Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat. — Effa Manley

The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium. — Mickey Mantle

I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense. — Daddy Yankee

This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness — Charlaine Harris

And I didn't neglect to point out to my Yankee buddies that most of the high shooters in our platoon were Southern boys. — Eugene B. Sledge

Here's the thing: I had never been to Boston, my whole life. Probably because I'm a Yankee fan. — Dash Mihok

I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee. — Joe DiMaggio

All the songs on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are the encapsulation of heterosexual love. I have different records for gay sex. — Margaret Cho

When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there. — Mickey Mantle

I think the good Lord is a Yankee. — Mariano Rivera

I'm happy to be with this organization, and I hope to retire as a Yankee. — CC Sabathia

I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play. — Mark Teixeira

Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans. — Curt Schilling

I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal. — Daddy Yankee