Yankees Quotes · Page 10

I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York…

— Ian Astbury

I've seen that picture before. It was a two-seamer that didn't sink until it hit the upper deck somewhere.

— Joe Torre

Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.

— John Fogerty

Every day that goes by and we don't win a ballgame, that's a missed opportunity for us to battle back.

— Brett Gardner

“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

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them…

— Reggie Jackson

There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza…

— Ed Sheeran

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

— Jim Thorpe

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is…

— Lewis Grizzard

The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to…

— Andrea Tantaros

I belong a Yankee. I'm really happy that I got the chance to sign a good contract, and really happy that I…

— Jorge Posada

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!…

— CM Punk

There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home.…

— Casey Stengel

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…

— Don Zimmer

Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo…

— George Will

The players get no respect around here. They (the Yankees) give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and…

— Don Mattingly

I quit drinking, and I figure if I go to ten Yankee games this year without drinking I'll save $32,000.

— Artie Lange

If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when…

— Mickey Mantle

When I look in the mirror, I look at the enemy. There is no one to blame for this but myself. I…

— Darryl Strawberry

The Yankees can buy all the stars they want, but that doesn't guarantee they are going to win.

— Casey Wasserman

Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to…

— Casey Stengel

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

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

— Margaret Mitchell

Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and…

— Billy Rose

You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie,…

— Lefty Gomez

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

— Mickey Mantle

You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

— Nick Johnson

I hate to see it go, I'll tell you that. I played here all my life. Eighteen years I played here and…

— Yogi Berra

Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.

— Yogi Berra

At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees…

— Johnny Damon

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

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

— Marsden Hartley

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

— Lefty Gomez

I take a lot of pride in playing for the Yankees, and trying to do things the right way.

— Brett Gardner

The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.

— Keith Hernandez

We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your…

— Penny Marshall

I don't know (if they were men or women running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.

— Yogi Berra

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a…

— Reggie Jackson

The home run took a while to sink in because all I could think of was, 'We beat the Yankees! We beat…

— Bill Mazeroski

The Marlins were close to signing me, but in the end my wish was to come back to the Yankees.

— Aroldis Chapman