Yankees Quotes

What the hell is wrong with him now?

I don't want to change. I haven't done it before, I won't do it now.

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

Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.

I quit drinking, and I figure if I go to ten Yankee games this year without drinking I'll save $32,000.

Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.

They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.

So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.

If I were catching blindfolded, I'd always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else.

I've been a Yankees fan since I was six.

I grew up a diehard Yankees fan.

Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports.

Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.

He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.

What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?

Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.

This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness

The Yankees are one of the best teams. I want to stay with them forever.

When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.

You know, the other day I gave all of my old Angels gear to Goodwill...and Goodwill gave it back.

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

At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.

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.

I will never brag about myself, but my family, I can go on forever.

I want to own a team one day. You know, that's my next goal.

Our fans don't want to see us win the Wild Card. They want to see us win the division.

The Yankees have twenty-five heroes.

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

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.

One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice.

Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

Baseball will miss Steinbrenner. He did a lot of great things-and some not so great-but it's a sad day for baseball, no doubt about it. He was a winner, and he made the Yankees a winner.

He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.

I'll stick to building ships.

Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.

When I played, Old-Timers Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one of the great Yankees... It was an out-of-body experience.

I want to be to the White Sox what Derek Jeter is to the Yankees.

What the Yankees need is a second base coach.

I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.

It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.

I love New York, I love the Yankees, I love the fans here.

I couldn't be a White Sox fan because that was like being a Mets or a Yankees fan.

I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York sports teams.

True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.

True Yankees are born, not made.

When you think New York, you think Yankees.

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.

A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everbody else.

When he took BP everybody would kind of stop what they were doing and watch.

I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox.