New York Yankees Quotes - Page 7

• I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

  Reggie Jackson

  Yankees, Drink, Straws

  Reggie Jackson, Kevin Baker (2013). “Becoming Mr. October”, p.97, Anchor

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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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• A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting.

  E. Michael Burke

  Baseball, Games, Cities

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• Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

  Casey Stengel

  Yankees, People, Age

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• I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.

  Jim Kaat

  Yankees, Survivor, Classroom

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• The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.

  Jim Bouton

  Baseball, Yankees

  Jim Bouton (1984). “Ball Four Plus Ball”, Scarborough House

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• Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

  Don Baylor

  Baseball, New York, Father

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

  John Flaherty

  Night, Yankees, Feelings

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• I don't want to change. I haven't done it before, I won't do it now.

  Alfonso Soriano

  Yankees, Done, Want

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• The populist zeal to seek revenge on those who make a lot of money is targeted almost exclusively at corporations. I haven't heard outcries about Hollywood actors who make millions per film, even when those movies are a bust at the box office and the talent at issue has none. There's no outrage over athletes like New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez's $33 million salary or Celtic power forward Kevin Garnett's $25 million. Nor should there be. These are exceptionally talented individuals whose teams' owners think they're worth every penny.

  Linda Chavez

  New York, Revenge, Team

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• You don't win 114 games by being lucky.

  Mike Hargrove

  Winning, Yankees, Games

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• He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.

  Mel Ott

  Yankees, Plates, Behinds

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

  Joe Torre

  Yankees, Needs, Boomers

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• When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.

  Chili Davis

  Yankees, Champion, World

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• We are the New York Yankees

  George Steinbrenner

  New York, Yankees

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• Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win.

  Phil Rizzuto

  Winning, Yankees, Kind

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• It's always the same, Combs walks, Koening singles, Ruth hits one out of the park, Gehrig doubles, Lazzeri triples. Then Dugan goes in the dirt on his can.

  Joe Dugan

  Yankees, Ruth, Dirt

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• When he took BP everybody would kind of stop what they were doing and watch.

  Jim Kaat

  Yankees, Watches, Kind

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• You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.

  Casey Stengel

  Yankees, Fields, World

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• It was the class and dignity which he led his life that made him part of all of us. I will forever treasure the close friendship we shared over the years.

  George Steinbrenner

  Years, Class, Yankees

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• On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'

  Catfish Hunter

  Home, Yankees, Two

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• Everyone keeps me telling me how great a knee replacement is. Whitey Ford said it was great and so did Ralph Branca. If I had one of those, I don't know that I would retire. But if I left for a month or more, who's going to want me back?

  Don Zimmer

  Yankees, Want, Knees

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• I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus.

  Don Zimmer

  Yankees, Sitting, Bonus

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

  Casey Stengel

  Yankees, Play

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