Yankees Quotes · Page 8

Every once in a while, someone would call me a foreigner or a Yankee, or whatever. In the United States, someone might…

— Viggo Mortensen

Every time I see him, he's not there.

— Yogi Berra

Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them... So you have a…

— Phil Rizzuto

We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned.

— George Steinbrenner

Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a…

— Paul Laffoley

When the Yankees say that they're interested in you, you perk up and you listen.

— Max Fried

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they…

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Whitey Ford

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

— Bob Feller

Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.

— Andy Pettitte

I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great.…

— James Gray

Churchill is the very type of a corrupt journalist. There is not a worse prostitute in politics. He himself has written that…

— Adolf Hitler

The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about…

— B. C. Forbes

We were mighty short of infielders in those days

— Lou Gehrig

I remember when I got a call and was told I was traded [to the Yankees in 1974], I actually cried because…

— Lou Piniella

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

— Joe Torre

I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4-1/2 minutes. When they asked him what it was like being…

— David Letterman

Out of what... a thousand?

— Mickey Rivers

Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody…

— Denis Leary

Never is a concept the Yankees won't ever come across.

— Andy Pettitte

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

— Jorge Posada

I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the…

— Jimmy Fallon

I don't know. How hot is it supposed to be?

— Yogi Berra

You gotta call a blacksmith.

— Yogi Berra

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

— Mark Teixeira