Yankee Fans Quotes

• All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

  John Cheever

  Men, Yankees, Fans

  Newsweek, October 20, 1986.

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• I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Hate, Yankees, Roots

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

  Joe DiMaggio

  Yankees, Yankee Stadium, Famous Baseball

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• My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Dream, Winning

  Derek Jeter (2010). “The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams”, p.21, Broadway Books

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• I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mothers family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Mother, Revenge, Father

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• Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans.

  Curt Schilling

  Yankees, Guy, Fans

  Interview with Jim Rome, thespitter.com. March 8, 2016.

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• I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.

  Curt Schilling

  Mistake, Mean, Yankees

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

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Yankees, Years

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• Ive always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium - I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd.

  Puff Daddy

  Kids, Yankees, Yankee Stadium

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

  Tommy Lasorda

  Dream, Yankees, Years

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• You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

  Nomar Garciaparra

  Sports, Yankees, Yankee Stadium

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• My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

  James Caan

  Baseball, Kids, Player

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• 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.

  John Shelton Reed

  Moving, Past, Yankees

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• The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Country, Latin, America

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• I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

  Ron Kovic

  Memorial Day, Home, Yankees

  Ron Kovic (2016). “Born on the Fourth of July: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Akashic Books

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• I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Yankees, Two, Civil War

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.

  Roger Maris

  Baseball, Yankees, Years

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• My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Dream, Hero

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• In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.

  Reggie Jackson

  Sports, Yankee Stadium, Yankees

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• Here's the thing: I had never been to Boston, my whole life. Probably because I'm a Yankee fan.

  Dash Mihok

  Yankees, Boston, Fans

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• It was the first time I used that bat. A Yankee fan in Chicago gave it to me the last time we were there and said it would bring me luck. There's no brand name on it or anything. Maybe the guy made it himself. It had been in the bat rack, and I picked it up by mistake because it looked like the bat I had been using the last few days.

  Graig Nettles

  Mistake, Yankees, Names

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• 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.

  Joe Torre

  Thinking, Yankees, Organization

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• I wasn't ever much of a Yankee fan.

  Tom Seaver

  Yankees, Fans

  Tom Seaver, Martin Appel (1984). “Tom Seaver's all-time baseball greats”, Atheneum

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