Yankees 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, Fans, Red

  Newsweek, October 20, 1986.

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• Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

  George Steinbrenner

  Economy, Mona Lisa

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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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• I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants

  Pat Sajak

  Drug, Being Free, Giants

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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, Unions

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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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• It's great to be young and be a Yankee!

  Joe DiMaggio

  Young, New York Yankees, Be Young

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• You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?

  Jimmy Breslin

  Baseball, Morning, Jobs

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• Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

  Bob Feller

  Sympathy, Pitching

  "Strikeout Story".

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• Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.

  Al Lopez

  Hate, Way, Beats

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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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• When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.

  Graig Nettles

  Baseball, Boys, Player

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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, Guy

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• Yeah? For what paper?

  Yogi Berra

  Paper, Yeah, New York Yankees

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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, Years

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

  Mel Ott

  Plates, Behinds, Fronts

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• You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Food

  Twitter post from Feb 9, 2018

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• A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Money

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.26, Workman Publishing

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• The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Hilarious, Sports

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• I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

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• I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Naps

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Death, Hilarious

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

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• The future ain't what it used to be.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Future, Political

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

  Yogi Berra

  Beauty, Baseball, Isms

  Quoted in Paul Dickson, Baseball's Greatest Quotations (1991)

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