Top 100 Quotes About Yankees
#1. The Yankees' Facebook page was hacked. The hacker was immediately purchased and signed to a 5 year contract with the Yankees.
Stephen Colbert
#2. 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
#3. [Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
Margaret Mitchell
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
Dizzy Dean
#8. Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
Bob Feller
#9. Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.
Graig Nettles
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. I've been a Yankees fan since I was six.
Bob Kerrey
#13. I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.
Andy Pettitte
#14. 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
#15. 'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.
Joe Lieberman
#16. I remember being, like, 5 years old, and my dad took me to a Yankees-Mets game. My dad had me on his shoulders and taught me one of the most important lessons about sports. He said, 'Jesse, just remember one thing, the Mets suck.'
Jesse McCartney
#17. 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
#18. I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
Lapo Elkann
#19. 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
#20. I am very happy and excited to re-sign with the Yankees.
Hiroki Kuroda
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. These were people ... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.
Rick Bragg
#25. 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
#26. I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.
Mario Cuomo
#27. When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan.
Gene Weingarten
#28. 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
#29. In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk ... You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic, as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.
J.R. Moehringer
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Mr. Lincoln, the merciful and just, who cries large tears over Mrs. Bixby's five boys, hasn't any tears to shed about the thousands of Yankees dying at Andersonville," said Rhett, his mouth twisting. "He doesn't care if they all die. The order is out. No exchanges.
Margaret Mitchell
#33. 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
#34. I don't have hate in my heart. I don't hate any person, place or thing ... but I hate the Yankees.
Michael Chiklis
#35. When you think New York, you think Yankees.
Jerry Buss
#36. I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.
John Guare
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my first memories is of them listening to a game on the radio and screaming at the radio. My brother would cry when they lost, and when I was really little, I didn't know why he was crying.
Penny Marshall
#40. The good thing is we got the Yankees three times at the end of the season.
Kevin Millar
#41. So the guy who shot Gadhafi was wearing a Yankees cap. Did you see that? If he'd had a Boston Red Sox hat on he probably would have missed.
David Letterman
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
Joe Torre
#45. I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
Bob Feller
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.
Joe E. Lewis
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. Molly Cade, you could be wearing a White Sox shirt, a Yankees thong, and a Packers Cheesehead and I would still want to do you."
She sighed. "Such a romantic.
Kate Meader
#52. 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
#53. There's almost nothing worse than spending an entire day anticipating watching a Yankees vs. Red Sox game, only to have the score be 9-0 in the third inning.
Tucker Elliot
#54. 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
#56. There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.
Johnny Damon
#57. After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.
Joe Torre
#58. The Dodgers to me are the Yankees of the National League.
Joe Torre
#59. 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
#60. Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.
Lewis Grizzard
#61. 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
#62. I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.
Nick Johnson
#63. You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.
Bill Lee
#64. I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.
Mamie Gummer
#65. I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
Pat Sajak
#66. OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him.
Dave Winer
#67. 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.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#68. True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
J. B. Smoove
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned.
George Steinbrenner
#72. The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
Casey Stengel
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. A Sunday. Only Yankees would think that was an appropriate time to thrust themselves into our lives. Sunday, the Lord's Day.
Alessandra Torre
#76. I take a lot of pride in playing for the Yankees, and trying to do things the right way.
Brett Gardner
#77. Her Yankees-loving, bottle cap-giving, dimpled smile other half was gone, and there wasn't anything she wouldn't do to turn back time.
Gail McHugh
#78. Just tip my cap and call the Yankees my daddy.
Pedro
#79. The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He wasn't covetous, he wasn't envious. But without money he was hardly a man.
Jonathan Franzen
#80. 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
#81. Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.
Jules Verne
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. What do they call that hat Jewish guys always wear? A Yankees cap.
Anthony Jeselnik
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.
Jim Thorpe
#89. 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
#90. September 10, 2001. A storm is brewing in New York City. A clash is about to begin. Tempers will soon rise as historical conquests and slights are remembered and renewed on the eve of this fight between ancient and embittered foes. Yes, the Boston Red Sox are playing the New York Yankees.
Hugh Howey
#91. Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.
Al Lopez
#92. 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
#93. Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
Joe Torre
#94. What you've lost sight of is what you are, and what you are is what you hate. You're the 10-time WWE Champion! You're the man! You, like the Red Sox, like Boston, are no longer the underdog! You're a dynasty. You are what you hate. You have become the New York Yankees!
CM Punk
#95. When I played, Old-Timers' Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one of the great Yankees ... It was an out-of-body experience.
Goose Gossage
#96. I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.
Antonio Sabato Jr.
#97. 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
#98. The Mets have heart and character, and I need a man who can root for the underdog. I refuse to sleep with a Yankees fan.
Jennifer Probst
#99. I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.
Nick Johnson
#100. 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
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