Yankees Quotes

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

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

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

It's something inside his heart that's bigger than anything. He's got the heart of a lion about to grab something.

He's the leader on this team, I know when Baltimore let us have him, they thought they were giving us a problem. I'll take problems like that anytime.

I was at Yankee Stadium one time at 5 a.m., but that was to buy angel dust

I didn't really say everything I said.

I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee is nothing else on earth but himself.

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.

Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.

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.

The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.

Sparky Lyle went from Cy Young to Sayonara.

Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

I take a lot of pride in playing for the Yankees, and trying to do things the right way.

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.

I think the good Lord is a Yankee.

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

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.

This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

The only color I don't have is navy brown.

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

Just two words: a masterpiece.

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

The Babe is one fellow, and I'm another and I could never be exactly like him. I don't try, I just go on as I am in my own right.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

The best thing about being a Yankee is getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day. The worst thing about being a Yankee? Getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day

I guess heaven needed a shortstop.

It's great to be young and be a Yankee!

You gotta call a blacksmith.

I don't think I've ever seen anybody with quicker hands than Soriano.

All pitchers are born pitchers.

These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

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

Every day that goes by and we don't win a ballgame, that's a missed opportunity for us to battle back.

If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.'

He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.

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

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.

They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.

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.

Every now and then they threw one where I was swinging.

There's always some youngster coming up- they'll find somebody.

When I get too much rest, I'm usually erotic.

I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?

Those huckleberries in the National League don't want to do anything that the American League wants to do.