New York Yankees Quotes - Page 10

• Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways to make an impact during the course of a game, and playing solid, sound defense is one of them.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Baseball, Winning

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

  Andy Pettitte

  Men, Yankees, Faces

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• A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'

  Bill Dickey

  Baseball, Jobs, Yankees

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

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• Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Success, Athlete

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• Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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

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• 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

  Yankees, Balls, Catching

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• In my opinion, I've had the greatest job in the world. I got a chance to be the shortstop for the New York Yankees, and there's only one of those. And I always felt as though it was my job, was to try to provide joy and entertainment for you guys, but it can't compare to what you brought me. So for that, thank you very much.

  Derek Jeter

  Jobs, New York, Yankees

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• I want to own a team one day. You know, that's my next goal.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Team, Yankees

  "The Lead with Jake Tapper", www.cnn.com. March 29, 2013.

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

  Andy Pettitte

  Yankees, Concepts

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  The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Success, Winning

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• 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

  Inspiring, Stars, Team

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• The Yankees have twenty-five heroes.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Hero, Yankees

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

  Dizzy Dean

  Baseball, Yankees, Wind

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• Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree.

  Joe Dugan

  Yankees, Tree, Ruth

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• What the hell difference does it make?

  Babe Ruth

  Yankees, Differences, Doe

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• He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.

  Casey Stengel

  Smart, Kids, Yankees

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• It's got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Yankees, Pages

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

  Yogi Berra

  Sorry, Hate, Yankees

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• They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.

  Babe Ruth

  Kids, Yankees, Rolling

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• You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.

  Lefty Gomez

  Yankees, Play, Guy

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• The first year was weird. I knew I was just there to talk to pitchers and not step on any toes. I could feel my adrenaline start to flow in about the sixth inning. I had to tell myself, "What the hell are you getting excited about? You're not going anywere, big boy. Just go sign some autographs." I was still programmed.

  Goose Gossage

  Boys, Yankees, Years

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• I had been having trouble with my eyes. One day my glasses fogged up while I was pitching, but when I cleaned them and looked at the plate and saw Foxx clearly, it frightened me so much I never wore them again.

  Lefty Gomez

  Eye, Yankees, Glasses

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• In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Yankees, Cases, Underpaid

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• Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.

  Casey Stengel

  Strong, Yankees, Hands

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• I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.

  Lefty Gomez

  Home, Yankees, Wife

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