Yankees Quotes

Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

I feel emptiness, and he probably won't be able to close his eyes for two or three days.

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because you either loved them or you hated them.

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.

You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.

When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

Boomer is ... Boomer. That pretty much tells you all you need to know

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.

The day I got called up to the majors I wasn't feeling well. I had gone out with my friends for 'sodas' the night before.

We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.

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

There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.

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

He pitches better when he's mad, so I try to make him that way.

I've kicked at Notre Dame the past four years, I've been in frigid cold weather, snow. I've kicked at Yankee Stadium in December, so whatever is thrown at me I'm able to do.

The Yankees had to fight all year to get in. When you're fighting all year and fighting all year, it wears you out a little bit.

We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.

A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"

I don't want to throw him nothing. Maybe he'll just get tired of waiting and leave.

He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season.

I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club.

The Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I have no idea what that is.

I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!

I've waited a long time to be part of a franchise like this [the Yankees].

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

It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and my first.

I was known as a Yankee killer. My best year against them was 1953. I beat them five times and shut them out four times. You just played a little harder against them.

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

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

The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka.

I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.

I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.

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

Just tip my cap and call the Yankees my daddy.

We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine.

I always feel pressure. What I don't have is fear. But pressure, there always is, and whoever says otherwise is lying.

Sometimes the hitter get a hit, sometimes I strike them out, but in niether case does anyone die.

I don't miss playing for the Yankees. I miss my friends, my teammates.

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

I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.

It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.

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.

I wasn't ever much of a Yankee fan.

There's no comparison to me. There's nothing like Yankees- Red Sox to me.

What a house - nothin' but rooms!

I hate to see it go, I'll tell you that. I played here all my life. Eighteen years I played here and I'm sorry to see it go.

I don't see how he lost five games during the season.

I don't know. How hot is it supposed to be?

The game was two hours, with the commercials. I wish they did that now.