Yankees Quotes · Page 9

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

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

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

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

Maybe they made me captain because I've been here so long. But if I'm supposed to lead by example, then I'll be…

— Thurman Munson

'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow…

— Joe Lieberman

The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one…

— Bill Simmons

Three of my childhood dreams went unfulfilled. I never saw a no-hitter, never saw a triple play, and never caught a ball…

— Thomas Hauser

The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The…

— Dave Winfield

When I was a teenager and my brother Frank was in the World Series in '57 and '58 against the Yankees, Braves…

— Joe Torre

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

Here's the pitch. Mantle swings. There's a tremendous drive going into deep left field! It's going, going! It's over the bleachers... over…

— Mel Allen

Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey…

— Reggie Jackson

Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to…

— Joe DiMaggio

Coaching and playing in New York is different than any city. You see it in baseball - superstars play for the Yankees…

— David Lee

A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was,…

— Lefty Gomez

Everyone asks how I felt before the perfect game. You never feel bad when you're in the World Series. You've got all…

— Don Larsen

When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.

— Tommy Lasorda

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

— Dizzy Dean

I was known as a Yankee killer. My best year against them was 1953. I beat them five times and shut them…

— Mel Parnell

“In 1973, the New York Yankees became the first team to use a designated hitter (often referred to as the “DH”).”

— Dan Formosa

I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox.

— Jimmy Fallon

“From The Red Sox Reader: "The Yankees may have always had the better players, but the Red Sox always had the better…

— Dan Riley

For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated.

— Jane Leavy

It's something inside his heart that's bigger than anything. He's got the heart of a lion about to grab something.

— Darryl Strawberry

Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if…

— Vivien Leigh

It was the class and dignity which he led his life that made him part of all of us. I will forever…

— George Steinbrenner

After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.

— Joe Torre

The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt…

— Margaret Mitchell

If I were catching blindfolded, I'd always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else.

— Bill Dickey

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

— Orlando Hernandez

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

— Lefty Gomez

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

— Tim McCarver

The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka.

— Mitch Williams

In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.

— Don Yaeger

It doesn't feel different being here (at the All-Star Game) I feel like I'm on an All-Star team everyday.

— Derek Jeter

I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.

— Nick Johnson