Yankees Quotes
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Yankees Quotes & Sayings
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Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey ... in the upper deck or the lower deck?
— Casey Stengel
People grow up loving the Yankees and will tell you, and so many people despise the Yankees, and they come from all over the United States.
— Curtis Granderson
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
If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed.
— Casey Stengel
If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.
— Reggie Jackson
I don't know. I've never been on second before.
— Lefty Gomez
When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan.
— Gene Weingarten
I don't have hate in my heart. I don't hate any person, place or thing ... but I hate the Yankees.
— Michael Chiklis
In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.
— Don Yaeger
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
— Margaret Mitchell
I didn't really say everything I said.
— Yogi Berra
I love New York. I love the Yankees. I love the fans here.
— Hideki Matsui
Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them ... So you have a right to sing the blues.
— Phil Rizzuto
When you're losing, you see what your team is made of.
— Curtis Granderson
Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.
— Charlie Day
You don't win 114 games by being lucky.
— Mike Hargrove
Out of what ... a thousand?
— Mickey Rivers
When I take the mound in Yankee Stadium I feel like my stuff is going to be better than ever.
— Andy Pettitte
After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.
— Joe Torre
Those huckleberries in the National League don't want to do anything that the American League wants to do.
— Phil Rizzuto
For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated.
— Jane Leavy
It's great to be young and a Yankee!
— Waite Hoyt
Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
— Bill Veeck
I always feel pressure. What I don't have is fear. But pressure, there always is, and whoever says otherwise is lying.
— Orlando Hernandez
We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.
— Casey Stengel
I think the good Lord is a Yankee.
— Mariano Rivera
Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.
— George Steinbrenner
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
Hold on to your own ideal ... Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all.
— Swami Vivekananda
We are the New York Yankees
— George Steinbrenner
When I look in the mirror, I look at the enemy. There is no one to blame for this but myself. I should have bought myself a mirror a long time ago.
— Darryl Strawberry
Yeah? For what paper?
— Yogi Berra
As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.
— Carl Everett
Maybe they made me captain because I've been here so long. But if I'm supposed to lead by example, then I'll be a terrible captain.
— Thurman Munson
I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.
— George Pickett
I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.
— Rudy Giuliani
Sparky Lyle went from Cy Young to Sayonara.
— Graig Nettles
Yankees in Georgia! How did they ever get in?
— Margaret Mitchell
From The Red Sox Reader:
"The Yankees may have always had the better players, but the Red Sox always had the better writers. — Dan Riley
"The Yankees may have always had the better players, but the Red Sox always had the better writers. — Dan Riley
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
— Yogi Berra
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
The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.
— Derek Jeter
Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes.
— Billy Rose
Gone with the Wind, a self-help manual that dealt with the subject of how best to cope with Yankees when they venture south.
— Raymond L. Atkins
I am very happy and excited to re-sign with the Yankees.
— Hiroki Kuroda
Five hundred smacks? On the Yankees? When the Braves've got Spahn and Burdette? Not to mention Hank Aaron and Steady Eddie Mathews?
— Stephen King
You gotta call a blacksmith.
— Yogi Berra
Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate.
— Denis Leary
Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.
— Vivien Leigh
Every day that goes by and we don't win a ballgame, that's a missed opportunity for us to battle back.
— Brett Gardner
So the guy who shot Gadhafi was wearing a Yankees cap. Did you see that? If he'd had a Boston Red Sox hat on he probably would have missed.
— David Letterman
What the hell is wrong with him now?
— Yogi Berra
Sometimes the hitter get a hit, sometimes I strike them out, but in niether case does anyone die.
— Orlando Hernandez
I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!
— Mark Teixeira
His reputation preceded him before he got here.
— Don Mattingly
True Yankees are born, not made.
— Jay Mohr
Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.
— Al Lopez
The Mets have heart and character, and I need a man who can root for the underdog. I refuse to sleep with a Yankees fan.
— Jennifer Probst
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
It's something inside his heart that's bigger than anything. He's got the heart of a lion about to grab something.
— Darryl Strawberry
Everyone asks how I felt before the perfect game. You never feel bad when you're in the World Series. You've got all winter to rest.
— Don Larsen
I want players to look neat and responsible. Maybe it's old school, but it's kind of neat when people are always clean.
— Joe Girardi
How can a you hit and think at the same time?
— Yogi Berra
You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.
— Casey Stengel
When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.
— Graig Nettles
Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.
— Yogi Berra
The stadium is a part of the Yankees and the Yankees are a part of the stadium. That will never change.
— Chuck Knoblauch
I'm so excited about the new [Yankee] stadium!
— Mark Teixeira
I'm proud to be a New York Yankee.
— Jacoby Ellsbury
We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.
— Lefty Gomez
He was a regular Yankee from New England. The Yankees are noted for making the most cruel overseers.
— William Wells Brown
I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
— Harold Ford Jr.
Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.
— Bert Campaneris