Yankees Quotations | Page 4

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.'

We are the New York Yankees

I'll stick to building ships.

He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.

I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all.

I'm pretty excited, this is a big, big one.

Irabu is a fat, pus-y toad.

I guess heaven needed a shortstop.

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.

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.

I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.

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

Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo told him that a man wearing Yankee pinstripes in front of 30,000 people should not end a sentence with a preposition. So Pinella, no dummy, said, "OK, where was that pitch at, asshole?"

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.

Y'know, I realize that George W. Bush is an asshole, but don't judge all us yankees by the actions of our government. Remember, he didn't win the popular vote so it's not entirely our fault!

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.

Hitting in a game is no different than hitting in a home run contest. It pisses me off to say Barry Bonds is the greatest hitter. He's playing in a wussy era. The game is soft. You never get thrown at today. Last thing a hitter has to worry about today is getting hit. The first thing Hank Aaron had to worry about is: Am I going to survive this at-bat because I'm black.

The first year was weird. I knew I was just there to talk to pitchers and not step on any toes. I could feel my adrenaline start to flow in about the sixth inning. I had to tell myself, "What the hell are you getting excited about? You're not going anywere, big boy. Just go sign some autographs." I was still programmed.

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.

I am very happy that Brian will continue as general manager. Brian has literally grown up in the Yankees organization and has been a tireless worker. He is very knowledgeable about the game and the business of baseball and is extremely loyal. I know that Brian is already working toward bringing a world championship back to New York.

I am proud that I was on the committee that selected Tyrell Godwin of East Bladen High School as a finalist. He was later selected for the scholarship and elected to turn down an offer of almost $2 million from the (New York) Yankees in order to attend UNC on the scholarship,

He's nasty. That's why the Yankees went and got him and that's why Chicago has him now. He's going to be huge for them in the playoffs.

He showed up on Sunday. He beat the Yankees again by himself.

I can't count how many times Bernie has said the following: I will do whatever the New York Yankees ask me to do to try and help us win. So if Joe Torre and our coaching staff feel that work on the corners is something that will provide more flexibility and more playing-time possibilities for him, then I'm sure they'll discuss that with him.

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.

When you think New York, you think Yankees.

It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half of us were nuts by the end of a season.

A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everbody else.

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

True Yankees are born, not made.

I grew up a diehard Yankees fan.

I've been able to do a lot of things in the movies. I've been able to run with the buffalo, you know. I've been able to pitch a perfect game in Yankee Stadium. I've been in the bathtub with Susan Sarandon. I've had a lot of chances to do a lot of things. I enjoy sports, but I enjoy sports so much to the point that I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.

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!!"

The good thing is we got the Yankees three times at the end of the season.

When you go hard your nays become yays. Yankee stadium with Jays and Kanyes.

To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

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.

They should have come out of the dugout on tippy-toes, holding hands and singing.

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.

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

The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.

If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.'

In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

It's got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.

There's always some youngster coming up- they'll find somebody.

Just two words: a masterpiece.

I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee

It's great to be young and be a Yankee!

Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.

I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.

Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn't. My number was up.

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season.

I don't want to throw him nothing. Maybe he'll just get tired of waiting and leave.

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club.

I don't know. I've never been on second before.

I had been having trouble with my eyes. One day my glasses fogged up while I was pitching, but when I cleaned them and looked at the plate and saw Foxx clearly, it frightened me so much I never wore them again.

Only triple I ever got.

We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.

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.

I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.

There are things about Joe Torre, if I wanted to come out and say, would show how cold and calculated he really is... Joe Torre is for Joe Torre. ... The graveyard of Yankees coaches is loaded with bones of coaches Joe Torre did nothing about.

Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That’s a more fruitful way to be.

I don't have hate in my heart. I don't hate any person, place or thing...but I hate the Yankees.

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.

He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.

After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.

I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!

I'm so excited about the new [Yankee] stadium!

It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and my first.

I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.

I've waited a long time to be part of a franchise like this [the Yankees].

I know what kind of pitcher Whitey was, and I know what kind of person Whitey is. It makes me feel proud to be a Yankee. We're keeping this in the family.

I think the good Lord is a Yankee.

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.

We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.

There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.

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.

You couldn't ask for a better ending the Yankees and Red Sox for the last three games.

The focus is on the team. A nice side note behind that is, obviously, the MVP race. Front and center right now is the Yankees vs. Boston.

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.

You want to give the audience the feeling this is the only game the Yankees and Red Sox are playing this year, ... that this is the only game that matters.

You usually don't see this type of celebration when the Yankees win a division,

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.

The confidence to beat the Yankees developed over a few years, ... Finally, we got to where we knew we could play with these guys, but at the same time, we knew that if we were going to play with the Yankees, we were going to have to play our best game, because they weren't going to give any slack. Now it's the same way here. These are two good teams who are going to go at it hard, and it's going to be entertaining, no matter which side you're on.

He pitches better when he's mad, so I try to make him that way.

I don't want to be gone. I don't want to be somewhere else. I consider myself a Yankee.

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.

I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee.

I always feel pressure. What I don't have is fear. But pressure, there always is, and whoever says otherwise is lying.

Sometimes the hitter get a hit, sometimes I strike them out, but in niether case does anyone die.

I love New York. I love the Yankees. I love the fans here.

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.

I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.

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.

You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.