Yankees Quotes - Page 14

• I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

  Joe Torre

  Kids, Years, Wish

  4 Copy quote

• The first year was weird. I knew I was just there to talk to pitchers and not step on any toes. I could feel my adrenaline start to flow in about the sixth inning. I had to tell myself, "What the hell are you getting excited about? You're not going anywere, big boy. Just go sign some autographs." I was still programmed.

  Goose Gossage

  Boys, Years, Flow

  8 Copy quote

• I know what kind of pitcher Whitey was, and I know what kind of person Whitey is. It makes me feel proud to be a Yankee. We're keeping this in the family.

  Mariano Rivera

  Proud, Kind, Pitcher

  7 Copy quote

• I always feel pressure. What I don't have is fear. But pressure, there always is, and whoever says otherwise is lying.

  Orlando Hernandez

  Lying, Pressure, Feels

  4 Copy quote

• Winning is a lot of fun. I remember having a meeting a couple years ago and telling the guys: 'You're not enjoying yourselves.' O'Neill said to me afterwards, 'Skip, it's not fun unless you win.'

  Joe Torre

  Couple, Fun, Winning

  4 Copy quote

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

  Casey Stengel

  Cities, Kansas City, Nobody Knows

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not worth a plugged nickel unless you have control to go along with them. And by control I don't mean the ability to put the ball over the plate somewhere between the shoulders and knees. I mean the ability to hit a three-inch target nine times out of ten, the sort of control that lets you put the ball in the exact spot you want it, and to play a corner to the split fraction of an inch.

  Babe Ruth

  Mean, Curves, Play

  George Herman Ruth, Babe Ruth (1992). “Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball”, p.11, U of Nebraska Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

  Jim Bouton

  Animal, Player, Today

  7 Copy quote

• I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club.

  Lefty Gomez

  Clubs, Speak, Enough

  4 Copy quote

• A lot of pitchers today are afraid of the ball. Warren Spahn pinch-hit for me when I was a rookie. He hit a sacrifice fly. I couldn't argue. I was 20 years old and just happy to be in the big leagues. And Spahnnie was a good hitter.

  Joe Torre

  Sacrifice, Years, League

  4 Copy quote

• I don't know. I've never been on second before.

  Lefty Gomez

  New York Yankees, Knows

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

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

  Joe DiMaggio

  Cases, New York Yankees, Underpaid

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  14 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• Only triple I ever got.

  Lefty Gomez

  New York Yankees

  4 Copy quote

• What a house - nothin' but rooms!

  Yogi Berra

  House, Rooms, New York Yankees

  4 Copy quote

• I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Cities, Dynasty

  4 Copy quote

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

  Alfonso Soriano

  Baseball, Running, Home

  4 Copy quote

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

  Casey Stengel

  Records, Ruth, Break

  4 Copy quote

• I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

  Ryan Guzman

  Baseball, Dream, College

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Irabu is a fat, pus-y toad.

  George Steinbrenner

  Toads, Fats, New York Yankees

  7 Copy quote

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

  Yogi Berra

  Games, Two, Wish

  4 Copy quote

• I guess heaven needed a shortstop.

  George Steinbrenner

  Heaven, Needed, Shortstops

  9 Copy quote