Yankees Quotes · Page 8

When I get too much rest, I'm usually erotic.

— Roger Clemens

I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.

— George Pickett

Sparky Lyle went from Cy Young to Sayonara.

— Graig Nettles

Boomer is ... Boomer. That pretty much tells you all you need to know

— Joe Torre

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

— Mark Teixeira

Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

— George Steinbrenner

At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.

— David Cone

What the Yankees need is a second base coach.

— Graig Nettles

The Yankees had to fight all year to get in. When you're fighting all year and fighting all year, it wears you…

— Larry Bowa

The day I got called up to the majors I wasn't feeling well. I had gone out with my friends for 'sodas'…

— John Flaherty

I always loved playing in New York, where the Yankees fans expect a winning team every year.

— Robinson Cano

The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the…

— Pete Rose

My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

— Wade Boggs

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

— Jim Bouton

I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say,…

— Mickey Mantle

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

— John Quincy Adams

He was a Baptist minister who prayed through his six-shooter which he claimed was the most efficacious form of prayer, especially in…

— John S. Mosby

When I played, Old-Timers' Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one…

— Goose Gossage

I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if…

— Bobby Cox

The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee…

— Frances Trollope

In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told…

— J. R. Moehringer

The NFL has a hard cap, but if you ask 20 NFL experts who is going to win the Super Bowl this…

— Bob DuPuy

I remember the first time I played the triple-A Yankees when I was 20 years old, and Darryl Strawberry was on that…

— Vernon Wells

It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.”

— Casey Stengel

I'd rather play for the Yankees. You get more money.

— Hikaru Nakamura

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

— Jorge Posada

Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch.

— Casey Stengel

I couldn't be a White Sox fan because that was like being a Mets or a Yankees fan.

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Bob Feller

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

— John Guare

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

— Jim Jarmusch

Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

— Casey Stengel

His reputation preceded him before he got here.

— Don Mattingly

The great thing about being a Yankee is that youre always a Yankee.

— Derek Jeter

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

— Lefty Gomez

OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him.

— Dave Winer

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

— Andy Pettitte

We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.

— Casey Stengel

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

— Mickey Mantle