Yankees Quotes - Page 11

• MVP, you could have picked a name out of a hat... we have a group of MVPs. You don't rely on one guy. You have to get contributions from everyone.

  Derek Jeter

  Mvp, Names, Guy

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• Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

  Casey Stengel

  Cities, Kansas City, Nobody Knows

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• I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Team, Thinking

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• After they remodeled Yankee Stadium I didn't feel that the ghosts were there anymore. It just wasn't the same.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Yankee Stadium, Ghost

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• So the guy who shot Gadhafi was wearing a Yankees cap. Did you see that? If he'd had a Boston Red Sox hat on he probably would have missed.

  David Letterman

  Boston, Guy, Red

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• Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

  Alice Hoffman

  Dark, Thinking, Magic Realism

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• The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.

  Jim Thorpe

  Baseball, Team, Class

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• I don't know. How hot is it supposed to be?

  Yogi Berra

  Hot, Know How, Supposed To Be

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• He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.

  George Steinbrenner

  Team, Jeter, Want

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• What a house - nothin' but rooms!

  Yogi Berra

  House, Rooms, New York Yankees

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• Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.

  Casey Stengel

  Records, Ruth, Break

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• Only triple I ever got.

  Lefty Gomez

  New York Yankees

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• I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.

  Lefty Gomez

  Home, Wife, Drink

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• Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.

  Casey Stengel

  Strong, Hands, Guy

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• In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Cases, New York Yankees, Underpaid

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• I had been having trouble with my eyes. One day my glasses fogged up while I was pitching, but when I cleaned them and looked at the plate and saw Foxx clearly, it frightened me so much I never wore them again.

  Lefty Gomez

  Eye, Glasses, One Day

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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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• I hate to see it go, I'll tell you that. I played here all my life. Eighteen years I played here and I'm sorry to see it go.

  Yogi Berra

  Sorry, Hate, Years

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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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• I guess heaven needed a shortstop.

  George Steinbrenner

  Heaven, Needed, Shortstops

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• The game was two hours, with the commercials. I wish they did that now.

  Yogi Berra

  Games, Two, Wish

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• Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record

  Alfonso Soriano

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• Irabu is a fat, pus-y toad.

  George Steinbrenner

  Toads, Fats, New York Yankees

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• I've been able to do a lot of things in the movies. I've been able to run with the buffalo, you know. I've been able to pitch a perfect game in Yankee Stadium. I've been in the bathtub with Susan Sarandon. I've had a lot of chances to do a lot of things. I enjoy sports, but I enjoy sports so much to the point that I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.

  Kevin Costner

  Sports, Running, Games

  "Kevin Costner Talks MCFARLAND, USA, What Makes a Memorable Sports Movie, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 18, 2015.

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• He's (George Steinbrenner) the one who gave me a chance to get to the World Series. This is where I wanted to be all along. We had a couple of nice offers from other teams, but I tied my agents' hands. I told them I wanted to be a Yankee.

  Roger Clemens

  Couple, Nice, Team

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