Top 100 Quotes About Yankees
#1. I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!
Mark Teixeira
#2. 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
#3. The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two ... the Yanks have four.
Keith Hernandez
#4. So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.
Bert Campaneris
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. There's no comparison to me. There's nothing like Yankees- Red Sox to me.
Willie Randolph
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.
David Cone
#17. My God ... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?
Wade Boggs
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.
Joe Torre
#25. 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
#26. His reputation preceded him before he got here.
Don Mattingly
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.
Frank Abagnale
#31. 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
#32. I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
Harold Ford Jr.
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.
Don Yaeger
#37. The great thing about being a Yankee is that youre always a Yankee.
Derek Jeter
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.
Lefty Gomez
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.
Casey Stengel
#45. I don't want to change. I haven't done it before, I won't do it now.
Alfonso Soriano
#47. I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all.
George Steinbrenner
#48. I don't want to be gone. I don't want to be somewhere else. I consider myself a Yankee.
Jorge Posada
#49. You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.
Casey Stengel
#50. The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.
Mickey Mantle
#51. He was a regular Yankee from New England. The Yankees are noted for making the most cruel overseers.
William Wells Brown
#52. We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose.
Billy Beane
#53. For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated.
Jane Leavy
#54. Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.
Yogi Berra
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. I don't know. I've never been on second before.
Lefty Gomez
#58. 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
#59. Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.
Casey Stengel
#60. I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.
Mickey Mantle
#61. We were mighty short of infielders in those days
Lou Gehrig
#62. Boomer is ... Boomer. That pretty much tells you all you need to know
Joe Torre
#63. 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
#66. 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
#67. The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.
Brad Faxon
#68. 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
#69. I want to be to the White Sox what Derek Jeter is to the Yankees..
Gordon Beckham
#70. The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal
neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee is nothing else on earth
but himself.
Frances Trollope
#71. You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.
Lefty Gomez
#73. He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season.
Lefty Gomez
#74. I don't think I've ever seen anybody with quicker hands than Soriano.
Sandy Koufax
#75. 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
#76. I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.
George Pickett
#77. I don't want to throw him nothing. Maybe he'll just get tired of waiting and leave.
Lefty Gomez
#78. They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
Babe Ruth
#79. 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
#80. The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka.
Mitch Williams
#81. I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
Action Bronson
#82. Nobody used the minute hand. And Southerners were suspicious of Yankees who did.
D.D. Scott
#83. You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.
Whitey Ford
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. I've been with the Yankees 17 years, watching games and learning. You can see a lot by observing.
Yogi Berra
#87. The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.
Marsden Hartley
#88. Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#89. We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine.
Penny Marshall
#90. I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.
Mickey Mantle
#91. When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees.
Bernie Williams
#92. Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them ... So you have a right to sing the blues.
Phil Rizzuto
#94. Once, while living in New York City in the early 2000s, I was asked to leave a sports bar because 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!
Mindy Kaling
#95. As for the Yankees, they had no other ambition than to take possession of this new continent of the sky, and to plant upon the summit of its highest elevation the star- spangled banner of the United States of America.
Jules Verne
#96. I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.
Ryan Guzman
#97. Listen up, because I've got nothing to say and I'm only gonna to say it once.
Yogi Berra
#98. I remember when I got a call and was told I was traded [to the Yankees in 1974], I actually cried because I liked Kansas City. But coming to the Yankees was the best thing that ever happened to me in my baseball career.
Lou Piniella
#99. It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.
Herman Melville
#100. I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club.
Lefty Gomez
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