Yankees Quotes - Page 12

• I wasn't ever much of a Yankee fan.

  Tom Seaver

  Fans, Yankee Fans

  Tom Seaver, Martin Appel (1984). “Tom Seaver's all-time baseball greats”, Atheneum

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• I had an incredible experience living in New York, playing for the Yankees, to go through all of the things I did, including the no-hitter. It was a very memorable time.

  Jim Abbott

  New York, Memorable, Incredibles

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• Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few very rich owners - principally, the Yankees'. The owners' primary objective is a more egalitarian distribution of wealth. The union believes that unconstrained spending by the richest three teams pulls up all payrolls. Most owners believe that baseball's problems--competitive imbalance, the parlous financial conditions of many clubs--result from large and growing disparities of what are mistakenly treated as 'local' revenues.

  George Will

  Baseball, Team, Believe

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• I've kicked at Notre Dame the past four years, I've been in frigid cold weather, snow. I've kicked at Yankee Stadium in December, so whatever is thrown at me I'm able to do.

  Kyle Brindza

  Past, Years, Weather

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• Churchill is the very type of a corrupt journalist. There is not a worse prostitute in politics. He himself has written that it'sunimaginable what can be done in war with the help of lies. He's an utterly amoral repulsive creature. I'm convinced that he has his place of refuge ready beyond the Atlantic. He obviously won't seek sanctuary in Canada. In Canada he'd be beaten up. He'll go to his friends the Yankees. As soon as this damnable winter is over, we'll remedy all that.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Lying, Winter

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• It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.

  Herman Melville

  Fog, Doe, Ale

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1232, Delphi Classics

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• So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

  Reggie Jackson

  Ideas, Trying, Mosquitoes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Reggie Jackson

  New York, Names, Bars

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 15 Apr. 1976

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• The Babe is one fellow, and I'm another and I could never be exactly like him. I don't try, I just go on as I am in my own right.

  Lou Gehrig

  Trying, Goes On, Babe

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• It's a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself.

  Lou Gehrig

  Giving, Shadow, Rooms

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• I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.

  Al Michaels

  Sports, Team, Hate

  "Al Michaels Interview by John Scott Lewinski". AskMen Interview,

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• The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.

  Reggie Jackson

  Reason, New York Yankees

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• I didn't come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me.

  Reggie Jackson

  Sports, New York, Stars

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

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• I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

  Reggie Jackson

  Drink, New York Yankees, Straws

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

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• I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It's like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees.

  Christopher Walken

  Baseball, Dream, Character

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.

  Reggie Jackson

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

  Bill Lee

  Sports, New York, Team

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• The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Baseball, Boston, Appreciate

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• My favorite is when you go to Afghanistan and you meet the special forces guys, and they look like these heavily armed surfers. These guys are the best. You see guys dressed as full Afghans, but then wearing a Yankees hat.

  Robin Williams

  Guy, Special, Looks

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.

  Pat Gillick

  Texas, Atlanta, Years

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• He was a Baptist minister who prayed through his six-shooter which he claimed was the most efficacious form of prayer, especially in dealing with Yankees...he would go into battle singing the songs of David.

  John S. Mosby

  Song, Prayer, War

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• I have a lot of regrets about what I've done. If I had to do it over again, I never would have left the Mets. I'm very thankful for all that Mr. (George) Steinbrenner did for me when I was with the Yankees, but I wish I had stayed in New York with the Mets.

  Darryl Strawberry

  New York, Regret, Wish

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• I would rather have come to Baltimore than the Yankees. You look at their situation, they're the kingpin and you want to be that underdog that knocks them off the top. That's pretty much the situation I've been in my whole career. It just makes for a better season when you knock the big guys off the top.

  Albert Belle

  Careers, Guy, Underdog

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• The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

  Reggie Jackson

  Sports, Skin Color, Differences

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