New York Yankees Quotes - Page 4

• Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

  Mike Royko

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Baseball

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• When I first signed with the Yankees, the regulars wouldn't talk to you until you were with the team three or four years. Nowadays the rookies get $100,000 to sign and they don't talk to the regulars.

  Lefty Gomez

  Baseball, Team, Yankees

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• Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Thinking, Yankees

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• I don't think I've ever seen anybody with quicker hands than Soriano.

  Sandy Koufax

  Thinking, Yankees, Hands

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• 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 the sign atop the bleachers... into the yards of houses across the street! It's got to be one of the longest runs I've ever seen! How about that!

  Mel Allen

  Running, Yankees, Swings

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• Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.

  Chet Huntley

  Baseball, Hate, Nbc

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• To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor - the union is short and sweet.

  Robert Rubin

  Baseball, Sweet, Yankees

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• Wall Street bankers supposedly back the Yankees; Smith College girls approve of them. God, Brooks Brothers, and United States Steel are believed to be solidly in the Yankees' corner... The efficiently triumphant Yankee maching is a great institution, but, as they say, who can fall in love with U.S. Steel?

  Gay Talese

  Girl, Baseball, Brother

  "The Yankees’ Field Of Screams" By Thomas B. Edsall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2009.

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• There's always some youngster coming up- they'll find somebody.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Yankees, Youngsters

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• Yeah? For what paper?

  Yogi Berra

  Yankees, Paper, Yeah

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• The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Motivational, Baseball

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them... So you have a right to sing the blues.

  Phil Rizzuto

  Loyalty, Yankees, White

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• How come it rains every Hall of Fame weekend? They need to move it to a different weekend.

  Yogi Berra

  Rain, Moving, Weekend

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• Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

  Graig Nettles

  Baseball, Dream, New York

  Graig Nettles, Peter Golenbock (1985). “Balls”, New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks

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• Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Baseball, Drinking, Sleep

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• I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul."

  Lefty Gomez

  Yankees, Careers, Balls

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• I'm a little too belligerent. I cuss and swear at people. I yell at umpires and maybe I'm a little to tough at home sometimes. I don't sign as many autographs as I should and I haven't always been that good with writers.

  Thurman Munson

  Home, Yankees, Umpires

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• If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

  Reggie Jackson

  New York, Yankees, Names

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 15 Apr. 1976

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• I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.

  Mickey Mantle

  Yankees, Games, Riding

  Mickey Mantle (1986). “The Mick”, Jove Publications

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• It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and my first.

  Mark Teixeira

  Player, Yankees, Honor

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• Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about the (perfect) game, but I don't remember when it happened last.

  Don Larsen

  Thinking, Yankees, Games

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

  Don Larsen

  Winter, Games, Yankees

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• 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 a terrible captain.

  Thurman Munson

  Yankees, Long, Captains

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• This 20th win means more to me than the perfect game in 1968.

  Catfish Hunter

  Mean, Winning, Yankees

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• I want players to look neat and responsible. Maybe it's old school, but it's kind of neat when people are always clean.

  Joe Girardi

  Old School, Player, Yankees

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