Top 19 New York Yankee Quotes

#1. I'm just human, I have faults like anyone

Nina Simone

#2. If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television anytime you want. But people still go to the ballpark because they are two different experiences. It's the same with film.

Patrick Whitesell

#3. Mayor de Blasio said that whenever he goes to a Yankee game he gets sick and tired of people booing and giving him the finger. Hey, what do you want? You're the mayor of New York City. It comes with the gig, pal.

David Letterman

#4. The vague is the false.

Marty Rubin

#5. Around New York, I used to hear that expression, 'Once a Dodger, always a Dodger.' But how about, 'Once a Yankee, always a Yankee?' There never was anything better than that. You never get over it.

Tony Lazzeri

#6. All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that.

Alex Morrison

#7. Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.

Joe DiMaggio

#8. New York City vagrant:
"What sort of 'nese are you people? Are you Chinese, or Japanese, or Javanese?"
Kakuzo Okakura responds:
"We are Japanese gentleman. But what sort of 'key are you? Are you a Yankee, or a donkey, or a monkey?

Okakura Kakuzo

#9. I'm proud to be a New York Yankee.

Jacoby Ellsbury

#10. Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.

Dan Brown

#11. Living in Atlanta those seven tumultuous years, I learned not to trust the Northern stereotype of white Southerners as incorrigible racists. Yankee self-righteousness ignored the depth of race hatred in places like Boston or New York.

Howard Zinn

#12. The word "Yankee" itself, I was informed, came from that simplest of Dutch names - Jan.

Joseph O'Neill

#13. During the 1920s New York Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert once described his perfect afternoon at Yankee Stadium. 'It's when the Yankees score eight runs in the first inning,' Ruppert said, 'and then slowly pull away.'

Peter Golenbock

#14. Of all the cars I've owned, I'd like still to have the Ferrari, the Porsche, the Alfa, the Lancia, the MG-TCs and the Fiat 850, but mostly I miss my Mini Moke.

Denise McCluggage

#15. When I became the manager of the New York Yankees, it was an opportunity to realize my lifelong dream of winning the World Series. We were fortunate enough to succeed in our first season in 1996, and in the years that followed, we wrote some great new chapters in Yankee history.

Joe Torre

#16. 'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

Robert Browning

#17. It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.

Seth Godin

#18. The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.

Reggie Jackson

#19. Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

Shane Carruth

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