Quotes About Yankees Baseball

#1. 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

#2. The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition.

Andrea Tantaros

#3. The best thing about being a Yankee is getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day. The worst thing about being a Yankee? Getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day

Graig Nettles

#4. To join Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys was like throwing a baseball around in your front yard and somebody coming over and signing you to play for the New York Yankees.

Johnny Gimble

#5. When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.

Jerry Spinelli

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. '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

#9. 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

#10. I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

#11. They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.

Catfish Hunter

#12. Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.

Joe E. Lewis

#13. Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.

Chet Huntley

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. The Yankees' Facebook page was hacked. The hacker was immediately purchased and signed to a 5 year contract with the Yankees.

Stephen Colbert

#17. 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

#18. After they remodeled Yankee Stadium I didn't feel that the ghosts were there anymore. It just wasn't the same.

Mickey Mantle

#19. Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

Joe Torre

#20. It ain't over 'til it's over.

Yogi Berra

#21. The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.

Jim Thorpe

#22. Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

Yogi Berra

#23. 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

#24. It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

Jim Jarmusch

#25. 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

#26. 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

#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. 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

#29. The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.

Mickey Mantle

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

Whitey Ford

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.

Yogi Berra

#40. The Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I have no idea what that is.

Luis Polonia

#41. As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.

Bob Feller

#42. I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It's like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees ...

Christopher Walken

#43. Baseball will miss Steinbrenner. He did a lot of great things-and some not so great-but it's a sad day for baseball, no doubt about it. He was a winner, and he made the Yankees a winner.

Don Zimmer

#44. World Series MVP is a unique individual honor because with one exception - Bobby Richardson won 1960 World Series MVP honors for the Yankees, but the Pittsburgh Pirates won the Series that year - by virtue of winning the award you guarantee your teammates have won a ring.

Tucker Elliot

#45. Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

Jimmy Cannon

#46. Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.

George Will

#47. How can a you hit and think at the same time?

Yogi Berra