Quotes and Sayings about Yankee
"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?"
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Manager, Boston)
"I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary."
- Yogi Berra
(Related: Night, Want)
"My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?"
- Wade Boggs
(Related: God)
"The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996."
- Wade Boggs
(Related: Opportunity, Giving, Respect, Want)
"So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting."
- Bert Campaneris
(Related: Play)
"I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too."
- Bert Campaneris
(Related: Opportunity, Play)
"Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys."
- Bert Campaneris
(Related: Famous, Yankee)
"All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."
- John Cheever
(Related: Life, Men, Society, Fans, Literary, Yankee)
"I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed."
- Roger Clemens
(Related: Open)
"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."
- Johnny Damon
(Related: Time, Right, World)
"All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it."
- Dizzy Dean
(Related: Careers, Giants, Help, Want, Wind)
"I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee."
- Joe DiMaggio
(Related: Yankee)
"I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game."
- Bob Feller
"Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them."
- Bob Feller
(Related: Sympathy)
"You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October."
- Whitey Ford
(Related: Baseball, October)
"You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day."
- Nomar Garciaparra
(Related: Time, Day, Electricity, Yankee)
"I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle," and the other isn't."
- Ulysses S. Grant
"I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner."
- John Guare
(Related: Ballet)
"I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North."
- Randy Harrison
(Related: Family, Shame, Yankee)
"The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four."
- Keith Hernandez
"Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods."
- Alice Hoffman
(Related: Quality, People, Magic, Realism, Tradition, Yankee)
"I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college."
- Bo Jackson
(Related: College, Draft, First, School)
"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."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: People, Building, Yankee)
"The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: Difference, Skin)
"My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true."
- Derek Jeter
(Related: Dreams, Office, Yankee)
"My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me."
- Derek Jeter
(Related: Dreams, Lie, Future, Yankee)
"You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium."
- Nick Johnson
(Related: Potential, Yankee)
"I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special."
- Nick Johnson
(Related: Play)
"I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better."
- Nick Johnson
"I was at Yankee Stadium one time at 5 a.m., but that was to buy angel dust."
- Artie Lange
(Related: Time, Yankee)
"Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us."
- Al Lopez
(Related: Hate)
"To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer."
- Mickey Mantle
(Related: Play, Yankee, Years)
"Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball."
- Roger Maris
(Related: People, American, Baseball, Day, Desire, Hell, Play, Road, Yankee, Years)
"I may not have been the best Yankee to put on the pinstripes, but I am the proudest."
- Billy Martin
(Related: May, Yankee)
"The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings."
- Margaret Mitchell
(Related: Doctors, Lawyers, Poets, Soldiers)
"True Yankees are born, not made."
- Jay Mohr
"Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax."
- Mike Royko
(Related: American, Cheating, Tax, Income, Mothers)
"I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants."
- Pat Sajak
(Related: Being, Congress, Giants)
"As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased."
- George Steinbrenner
(Related: Father, Hope)
"Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa."
- George Steinbrenner
"We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned."
- George Steinbrenner
(Related: Ownership, Running)
"The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Day)
"The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: People, Act, America, American, Countries, Reason, Wages, Will, Yankee)
"To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true."
- David Wells
(Related: History, Dream, Growing up, Yankee)
"OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him."
- Dave Winer
(Related: Now)
"The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border."
- Dave Winfield
(Related: Canada, First, World, Years)