Yankees Quotes

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If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

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.

I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.

I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.

See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

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

I don't have hate in my heart. I don't hate any person, place or thing...but I hate the Yankees.

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.

It's like deja-vu, all over again.

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

Always follow your dreams, don't let anyone tell you that you can't be something.

I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.

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

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

Out of what... a thousand?

Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

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

Ninety percent of this game is half mental.

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.

To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.

Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.

Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.

After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.

The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.

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.

I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants

I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

Listen up, because I've got nothing to say and I'm only gonna to say it once.

I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee

I think you learn. You learn from your mistakes. You learn from things you do and try to stay away from the negatives in your life. I think I've grown.

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

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

I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult.

We were mighty short of infielders in those days

Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes.

It's a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself.