Top 70 Go Yankees Quotes
#1. I don't want to change. I haven't done it before, I won't do it now.
Alfonso Soriano
#2. For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated.
Jane Leavy
#3. We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose.
Billy Beane
#4. He was a regular Yankee from New England. The Yankees are noted for making the most cruel overseers.
William Wells Brown
#5. The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.
Mickey Mantle
#6. You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.
Casey Stengel
#7. I don't want to be gone. I don't want to be somewhere else. I consider myself a Yankee.
Jorge Posada
#8. I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all.
George Steinbrenner
#10. 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
#11. He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.
Casey Stengel
#12. YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.
Ambrose Bierce
#13. 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
#14. If you hate the Yankees so much," Connie asked me, "why did you move to New York?" "To find out what kind of city could make a monster like a Yankees fan.
Joshua Ferris
#15. I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.
Lefty Gomez
#16. 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.
Chili Davis
#17. At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.
Johnny Damon
#18. The great thing about being a Yankee is that youre always a Yankee.
Derek Jeter
#19. To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it's pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it's still sort of unbelievable to me.
Joe Torre
#20. 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.
Lou Gehrig
#21. There's no way I can play for the Yankees, but I know they're going to come after me hard. It's definitely not the most important thing to go out there for the top dollar, which the Yankees are going to offer me. It's not what I need.
Johnny Damon
#22. My favorite is when you go to Afghanistan and you meet the special forces guys, and they look like these heavily armed surfers. These guys are the best. You see guys dressed as full Afghans, but then wearing a Yankees hat.
Robin Williams
#23. I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.
Nick Johnson
#24. The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.
Johnny Damon
#26. I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play!
Tom Hanks
#27. I am a real New Yorker ... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale ... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.
John Catsimatidis
#28. In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.
Don Yaeger
#29. I had an incredible experience living in New York, playing for the Yankees, to go through all of the things I did, including the no-hitter. It was a very memorable time.
Jim Abbott
#30. When you go hard your nays become yays. Yankee stadium with Jays and Kanyes.
Nicki Minaj
#31. I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back east and catch Yankees games. His side of the family are big Yankees fans. But, the real connection came in '97 when I moved to New York and became friends with the team.
Carson Daly
#32. I will never brag about myself, but my family, I can go on forever.
Derek Jeter
#33. (Dixie from Slices These Yankees are like hemorrhoids, but at least in Alabama when they come down, they eventually go on back up.
D.B. Woodling
#34. There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.
Casey Stengel
#35. He was a Baptist minister who prayed through his six-shooter which he claimed was the most efficacious form of prayer, especially in dealing with Yankees ... he would go into battle singing the songs of David.
John S. Mosby
#36. I also knew that I was number one on the Yankees Cap hit parade. That settled me down. There's nothing like immident death to sharpen a guy's outlook.
Jim Stewart
#37. The Yankees understood what New York understood, that there was no shame in buying success, and maybe because of their lack of shame they did what they did better than anyone in the business.
Michael Lewis
#38. My God ... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?
Wade Boggs
#39. At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.
David Cone
#40. Everyone keeps me telling me how great a knee replacement is. Whitey Ford said it was great and so did Ralph Branca. If I had one of those, I don't know that I would retire. But if I left for a month or more, who's going to want me back?
Don Zimmer
#41. If you look around world, the great brands are Real Madrid, Manchester United. The Yankees, the Cowboys and the Lakers are there. We should aspire with the Maple Leafs to be there.
Tim Leiweke
#42. There's no comparison to me. There's nothing like Yankees- Red Sox to me.
Willie Randolph
#43. I went to the doctor, and they found something in my bladder. And whenever they find something, it's never anything good like, "We found something in your bladder AND IT'S SEASON TICKETS TO THE YANKEES!!"
Mike Birbiglia
#44. 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.
George Brett
#45. Last summer I picked up a yellow scrap of newspaper and read of a Biloxi election in 1948, and in it I caught the smell of history more pungently than from the metal marker telling of the French and Spanish two hundred years ago and the Yankees one hundred years ago. 1948. What a faroff time.
Walker Percy
#46. Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.
Sam Crawford
#47. Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.
Josh Billings
#48. Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month.
Andrew Bacevich
#49. I never went through a period were I wanted to be a doctor, a cop or even a rock star. All I wanted to do was play short stop for the Yankees from the time I was about 5. Then I turned 15 and realized how silly that was and just gave up on it.
Artie Lange
#50. Who won the 2004 World Series?"
She shrugged, "The Yankees?"
"The Yankees? And you claim to be an American?" He enjoyed rubbing it in after her attitude about Harrisburg. "It was the Red Sox. The year they broke the curse.
Brandon Mull
#51. So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.
Bert Campaneris
#52. The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two ... the Yanks have four.
Keith Hernandez
#53. As a Frenchman who represented neither North nor South, East nor West, left nor right, Yankees nor Red Sox, Lafayette has always belonged to all of us.
Sarah Vowell
#54. To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor - the union is short and sweet.
Robert Rubin
#55. For that matter I didn't understand Civil War reenactments. Why would you celebrate the biggest thing you ever lost? I quickly learned not to give voice to such skepticisms, and when asked if I was a Yankee I said I didn't follow baseball closely. That usually shut the person up.
Patricia Cornwell
#56. It was the class and dignity which he led his life that made him part of all of us. I will forever treasure the close friendship we shared over the years.
George Steinbrenner
#57. That's a mistake,' he said. 'You miss an awful lot of life that way. That's why you Yankees are so cold,' he said. 'You think too much. That's why you marry so seldom.
Kurt Vonnegut
#58. I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
Harold Ford Jr.
#59. If for no other reason she hated the Yankees because they kept her from having real coffee with sugar and thick cream in it.
Margaret Mitchell
#60. Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.
Frank Abagnale
#61. 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.
Ed Sheeran
#62. 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
#63. I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!
Mark Teixeira
#64. His reputation preceded him before he got here.
Don Mattingly
#65. On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'
Catfish Hunter
#66. I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.
Joe Torre
#67. Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.
Reggie Jackson
#68. Do you have a favorite team?"
He smirked. Literally smirked.
"There's only one New York team."
Alexa fought past the nausea and asked the question.
"Which one?"
"The Yankees, of course. It's the only team that wins. It's the only team that matters.
Jennifer Probst
#70. 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.
Mickey Mantle
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