New York Yankees Quotes - Page 11

• Only triple I ever got.

  Lefty Gomez

  Yankees

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• To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

  Mickey Mantle

  Yankees, Roosters, Pieces

  Edward Ford, Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle, Joseph Durso (1977). “Whitey and Mickey: A Joint Autobiography of the Yankee Years”, Viking Adult

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• There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.

  Waite Hoyt

  Baseball, Running, Home

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

  Roger Clemens

  Yankees, Erotic, Too Much

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• I feel emptiness, and he probably won't be able to close his eyes for two or three days.

  Joe Torre

  Eye, Yankees, Two

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