Steinbrenner Yankees Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: Don Zimmer

#2. We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned. - Author: George Steinbrenner

#3. You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy..- Stephanie Marston
Letting your kids see u helping others and not expect anything in return can be contagious - Author: Kevin Heath

#4. The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else. - Author: Reggie Jackson

#5. He's the leader on this team, I know when Baltimore let us have him, they thought they were giving us a problem. I'll take problems like that anytime. - Author: George Steinbrenner

#6. 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. - Author: Darryl Strawberry

#7. I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. - Author: John Guare

#8. Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa. - Author: George Steinbrenner

#9. I'm pretty excited, this is a big, big one. - Author: George Steinbrenner

#10. Men are such faithless creatures - Author: George R R Martin

#11. It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS. - Author: Bruce Davison

#12. I'll stick to building ships. - Author: George Steinbrenner

#13. Irabu is a fat, pus-y toad. - Author: George Steinbrenner

#14. Having reached the end of my poor sinner's life, my hair now white, I grow old as the world does, waiting to be lost in the bottomless pit of silent and deserted divinity, sharing in the light of angelic intelligences; - Author: Umberto Eco

#15. ...and I wonder if my lineage is one of women shrinking, making space for the entrance of men into their lives, not knowing how to fill it back up once they leave. I have been taught accommodation. - Author: Lily Myers

#16. I was a full foot taller than any child my age. - Author: Kristen Johnston

#17. We are the New York Yankees - Author: George Steinbrenner

#18. Once in a while, I played second base; once in a while, outfield. But those were just pickup games and softball leagues. So when I bought the Yankees, I tried to stay one pace ahead of the players. - Author: George Steinbrenner

#19. He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team. - Author: George Steinbrenner

#20. I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young. - Author: Jodie Foster

#21. We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business. - Author: Jeff Bezos

#22. Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything. - Author: Wilson Greatbatch

#23. Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us. - Author: Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#24. I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all. - Author: George Steinbrenner

#25. 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. - Author: George Steinbrenner

#26. In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees. - Author: Don Yaeger

#27. 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. - Author: George Steinbrenner

#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. - Author: Wade Boggs

#29. 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. - Author: Robert Rubin