Yankees Quotes - Page 10

• Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Unions, Remarkable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.378, Harvard University Press

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• YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Europe, Southern, Unions

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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

  Jim Bouton

  Baseball, New York Yankees

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

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• Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

  George Brett

  Winning, Years, Games

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• There's no comparison to me. There's nothing like Yankees- Red Sox to me.

  Willie Randolph

  Red, Comparison

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• Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all!. . . The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us."

  Vivien Leigh

  Tired, Effort, Wish

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• You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and Cable burgers hard by the Golden Gate, Dixie burgers in the sunny South and Yankee Doodle burgers in the North....We had a Capitol Burger - guess where. And so help us, in the inner courtyard of the Pentagon, a Penta burger.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Stars, Brooklyn Bridge

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• Every once in a while, someone would call me a foreigner or a Yankee, or whatever. In the United States, someone might say something, like how kids do, to point out that you're different. That would come as a surprise to me. As you get old, you either get defensive about it or you accept it and you reach out, because you realize the world's full of people like that.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Kids, People, World

  "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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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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• Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow perceptions, intense convictions, and changeless tenacity. In his build he was a gladiator; in his humor a Yankee lumberman; in his memory a Bourbon; in his vengeance an Indian. A strange mixture, only to be found on the American continent

  Fitz Hugh Ludlow

  Memories, Powerful, Perception

  Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1871). “The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle”, p.355

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• There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.

  Johnny Damon

  Play, Way, I Can

  "BASEBALL; Yankees Add Their Centerpiece" by Tyler Kepner, www.nytimes.com. December 21, 2005.

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• Cameron Indoor Stadium is a special place in sports and there's really nothing else out there quite like it. Anytime I'm inside Cameron, I've got memories. Cameron is like Yankee Stadium or the old Boston Garden.

  Grant Hill

  Sports, Memories, Garden

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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, Feelings, Soda

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• After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.

  John Paul Stevens

  Giving, Judging, Acting

  Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338, supreme.justia.com. 2007.

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• New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense before. [...] It is as American as the Stars and Stripes, as patriotic as the national Anthem. It is Yankee Doodle in a kettle.

  Joseph C. Lincoln

  Stars, Patriotic, Hymns

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• The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

  Marsden Hartley

  Past, Heritage, Virtue

  "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 11, 1988.

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• The NFL has a hard cap, but if you ask 20 NFL experts who is going to win the Super Bowl this year, you might get 20 different answers. If you then asked 20 baseball experts who is going to represent the American League in the World Series, at least 90 percent of them would say the Yankees and the rest would say Seattle.

  Bob DuPuy

  Baseball, Winning, Years

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• Know what the difference between hitting .250 and .300 is? It's 25 hits - 25 hits in 500 at-bats is 50 points. There's six months in a season, that's about 25 weeks. That means if you get just one extra flare a week - just one - you get a ground ball with eyes, you get a dying quail, just one more dying quail a week ... and you're in Yankee Stadium.

  Crash Davis

  Mean, Eye, Differences

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• The good thing is we got the Yankees three times at the end of the season.

  Kevin Millar

  Three, Good Things, Ends

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• Mayor de Blasio said that whenever he goes to a Yankee game he gets sick and tired of people booing and giving him the finger. Hey, what do you want? You're the mayor of New York City. It comes with the gig, pal.

  David Letterman

  New York, Tired, Games

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• I was at Yankee Stadium one time at 5 a.m., but that was to buy angel dust

  Artie Lange

  Angel, Dust, Yankee Stadium

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• The only color I don't have is navy brown.

  Yogi Berra

  Color, Navy, Brown

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• I wake up every morning and thank God I live in a country where all of this is possible. Where you have the Yankee ingenuity to roll up your sleeves, get a band of people who believe in something and go for it and make it happen. It doesn't happen anywhere else.

  Brian Binnie

  Country, Morning, Believe

  "Spaceshipone Wins The X Prize". www.wired.com. October 4, 2014.

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• The stadium is a part of the Yankees and the Yankees are a part of the stadium. That will never change.

  Chuck Knoblauch

  Never Change, Stadiums

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• I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

  Randy Harrison

  Shame, Born

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