Yankees Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 went to the doctor, and they found something in my bladder. And whenever they find something, it's never anything good like, "We found something in your bladder AND IT'S SEASON TICKETS TO THE YANKEES!!"

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Doctors

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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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• 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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• 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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• The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal
  neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee is nothing else on earth
  but himself.

  Frances Trollope

  Perseverance, Scotch, Earth

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• If you saw that Yankee pitching too often, there would be a lot of guys doing different jobs.

  Joe Rudi

  Jobs, Guy, Different

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• This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.

  Roger Angell

  Perfection, Half, Recognition

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• The Yankees had to fight all year to get in. When you're fighting all year and fighting all year, it wears you out a little bit.

  Larry Bowa

  Fighting, Years, Littles

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• Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Sports, Red, Rivalry

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• As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.

  Carl Everett

  Baseball, Long, Matter

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• Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a New Englander. He taught from '48 to '49 and '50 at Black Mountain College. That's where he met Kenneth Snelson. Fuller kind of stayed a Yankee right in the New England area. So it was pretty easy to get him to come on over, and we would have lectures at the Harvard Science Center.

  Paul Laffoley

  College, Islands, Black

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.

  Lefty Gomez

  Games, Victory, Dinner

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• Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

  Casey Stengel

  Two, Speaks French, Language

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• Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn't. My number was up.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

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• Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Uniforms, New York Yankees

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• The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka.

  Mitch Williams

  Team, Would Be, Ifs

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• When I was 2, I used to put pictures of the Manhattan skyline in a little scrapbook. And I used to wear American 'stars and stripe' vests and Daytona Beach stuff and they used to call me 'The Little Yankee.' Thank you to my producers for having faith in a little nobody from Lancashire.

  Tracie Bennett

  Beach, Stars, Stripes

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• I want to be to the White Sox what Derek Jeter is to the Yankees.

  Gordon Beckham

  White, Jeter, Want

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• Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.

  Josh Billings

  Garden, Eden, Boss

  "Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings". Book by Josh Billings, 1865.

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• Ive always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium - I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd.

  Puff Daddy

  Kids, Yankee Stadium, Listening

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• Here's the thing: I had never been to Boston, my whole life. Probably because I'm a Yankee fan.

  Dash Mihok

  Boston, Fans, Whole Life

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