Top 100 Quotes About The Yankees
#1. The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two ... the Yanks have four.
Keith Hernandez
#2. I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.
Al Michaels
#3. I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.
Nick Johnson
#4. I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.
Mamie Gummer
#5. I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
Pat Sajak
#6. I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.
Jacob Ruppert
#7. 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.
Derek Jeter
#9. The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
Casey Stengel
#10. This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.
Harper Lee
#11. While many a Georgian condemned the Yankees for ravaging the countryside, it should be noted that the Confederates often treated Southerners just as badly, if not worse. Major
James Lee McDonough
#12. I take a lot of pride in playing for the Yankees, and trying to do things the right way.
Brett Gardner
#13. Just tip my cap and call the Yankees my daddy.
Pedro
#14. 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
#15. I have an uncle and cousin in Boston." Percy looked shocked. "You, with the Yankees cap? You've got family in Red Sox country?" Annabeth smiled weakly. "I never see them. My dad and my uncle don't get along. Some old rivalry. I don't know. It's stupid what keeps people apart.
Rick Riordan
#16. From The Red Sox Reader:
"The Yankees may have always had the better players, but the Red Sox always had the better writers.
Dan Riley
#17. I belong a Yankee. I'm really happy that I got the chance to sign a good contract, and really happy that I got the chance to stay with the Yankees. Going elsewhere, I was going to hear the offers, but the Yankees made it really tough.
Jorge Posada
#18. Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
Waite Hoyt
#19. The first intimation I had that the Yankees were for sale was through an item to that effect in the newspapers. The idea instantly occurred to me that here was a prospect to become interested in a major-league club at home.
Jacob Ruppert
#20. The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.
Jim Thorpe
#21. A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion ... A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.
Samuel Eliot Morison
#22. I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.
Yogi Berra
#23. Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.
Vivien Leigh
#24. Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.
Ernest Hemingway,
#25. My experience over 17 years playing with the Yankees, these are a few of the things that I've learned. You've got to have a plan of action, You have to stay focused on the things you can control, and don't get discouraged or distracted by the things you cannot control.
Bernie Williams
#26. If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.
Casey Stengel
#27. The Yankees are one of the best teams. I want to stay with them forever.
Chien-Ming Wang
#28. In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can't. With other teams, the wives always have functions to bring them together. Not here. You don't know what half the wives look like.
Gary Sheffield
#29. Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.
Al Lopez
#30. Here's to bottle caps,the Yankees, and 'birds', and most of all" ... he paused and lowered his voice to a whisper.." and,most of all to a beautiful girl named Molly who refuses to believe the man-the man who loves her more than she'll ever know
Gail McHugh
#31. Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
Joe Torre
#32. I prefer the Yankees,' one of the blueshirts chimes in.
'If I want your opinion, I'll rattle the bars in your cage,' Lombardazzi said. 'Until then, shut up and die right.
Stephen King
#33. It's not good or bad, but closers have changed things. I don't think you are going to win a World Series without one. Where would the Yankees be without Mariano Rivera?
Bruce Sutter
#34. I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.
Nick Johnson
#35. The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.
Jules Verne
#36. When I first signed with the Yankees, the regulars wouldn't talk to you until you were with the team three or four years. Nowadays the rookies get $100,000 to sign and they don't talk to the regulars.
Lefty Gomez
#37. The Yankees' Facebook page was hacked. The hacker was immediately purchased and signed to a 5 year contract with the Yankees.
Stephen Colbert
#38. I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.
Bobby Cox
#39. The Dodgers to me are the Yankees of the National League.
Joe Torre
#40. After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.
Joe Torre
#41. There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.
Johnny Damon
#43. As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.
Carl Everett
#44. 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
#45. When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.
Graig Nettles
#46. Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.
Joe E. Lewis
#47. Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all! ... The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us."
Vivien Leigh
#48. I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
Bob Feller
#49. I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
Joe Torre
#50. 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
#51. The Greatest Living Yankee is Whitey Ford, who came out of Aviation High School, which was then in Manhattan, and helped pitch the Yankees to victory in the 1950 World Series when he was 21.
George Vecsey
#52. The good thing is we got the Yankees three times at the end of the season.
Kevin Millar
#53. I have a lot of regrets about what I've done. If I had to do it over again, I never would have left the Mets. I'm very thankful for all that Mr. (George) Steinbrenner did for me when I was with the Yankees, but I wish I had stayed in New York with the Mets.
Darryl Strawberry
#54. I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
Pat Gillick
#55. I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.
John Guare
#56. I don't have hate in my heart. I don't hate any person, place or thing ... but I hate the Yankees.
Michael Chiklis
#57. I was so happy when I found out I had been drafted by the Yankees. Growing up in Taiwan, I had heard so much about the Yankees but had never even seen them on TV.
Chien-Ming Wang
#58. My first and foremost goal when I joined the Yankees was to win the world championship. Certainly, it's been a long road and very difficult journey. But I'm just happy that after all these years we were able to win and reach the goal that I had come here for.
Hideki Matsui
#59. 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
#60. Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate.
Denis Leary
#61. I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.
Mario Cuomo
#62. 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
#63. Most of us know nothing about constitutional law, so it's hardly surprising that we take sides in the Obamacare debate the way we root for the Red Sox or the Yankees. Loyalty to the team is what matters.
Paul Bloom
#64. My favorite event each year is the Yankees-Red Sox series. Love seeing passions run hot among the fans, especially when both teams are in the running for the playoffs.
Elizabeth Banks
#66. I am very happy and excited to re-sign with the Yankees.
Hiroki Kuroda
#67. 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
#68. I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
Lapo Elkann
#69. People grow up loving the Yankees and will tell you, and so many people despise the Yankees, and they come from all over the United States.
Curtis Granderson
#70. As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because ... you either loved them or you hated them.
Joe Torre
#71. I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.
Derek Jeter
#72. Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
Bob Feller
#73. Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect.
Manny Farber
#74. The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the Cubs, the Phillies, the big-name teams.
Pete Rose
#75. When I was a teenager and my brother Frank was in the World Series in '57 and '58 against the Yankees, Braves winning in '57 and the Yankees in '58, little did I know the next time these two teams would meet in the World Series, I would be managing the Yankees.
Joe Torre
#76. 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.
Swami Vivekananda
#77. The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.
Derek Jeter
#78. You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.
Joe Torre
#79. I've waited a long time to be part of a franchise like this [the Yankees].
Mark Teixeira
#80. I'm pretty crazy about the Yankees. When I can't actually watch a game, I TiVo it. I am also a die-hard Dallas Cowboys fan. I don't tell many people that because I will get made fun on because I'm from New Jersey!
Nick Jonas
#81. The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.
Brad Faxon
#82. He was a regular Yankee from New England. The Yankees are noted for making the most cruel overseers.
William Wells Brown
#83. We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose.
Billy Beane
#84. For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated.
Jane Leavy
#85. Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they'd be in any other city.
Sarah Lacy
#86. the Yankees were playing my hometown Red Sox on TV and I lost my cool at a guy who was loudly dissing them. I yelled, "Derek Jeter is baseball's Hitler!" This was in New York City. In a room full of Jewish sports fans. I don't even really like baseball that much! I have problems.
Mindy Kaling
#87. 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.
Joe Torre
#88. Jared was her son and the "co-general manager" of the Yankees - co meaning shares the title with someone who knows what he's doing because he got the job through nepotism.
Harlan Coben
#90. Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
Bill Veeck
#91. The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka.
Mitch Williams
#92. I've been with the Yankees 17 years, watching games and learning. You can see a lot by observing.
Yogi Berra
#93. Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes.
Billy Rose
#94. 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
#95. You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.
Whitey Ford
#96. I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in '77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.
James Gray
#97. I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is your life and everything else is secondary.
Gary Sheffield
#98. I want to be to the White Sox what Derek Jeter is to the Yankees..
Gordon Beckham
#99. 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
#100. I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.
George Pickett
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