Yankees Quotes - Page 18

• Hopkins is talking about fighting at Yankee Stadium but that's rubbish. If he fought at Yankee Stadium, even the ushers wouldn't want to watch him. Bernard Hopkins couldn't draw breath.

  Bob Arum

  Fighting, Talking, Yankee Stadium

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• These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

  Rick Bragg

  Smart, Home, Thinking

  Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.15, Vintage

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• As you know, there were lots of huge marches around the country yesterday to protest the immigration laws. The marches had quite an impact on businesses. Restaurants had to close, construction sites had to shut down, the Yankees had to forfeit a game. ... Do you realize that Americans are now doing the jobs that immigrants won't do because they're out protesting?

  Jay Leno

  Country, Jobs, Impact

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• In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Italian, Rich Or Poor, Drunk

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• The populist zeal to seek revenge on those who make a lot of money is targeted almost exclusively at corporations. I haven't heard outcries about Hollywood actors who make millions per film, even when those movies are a bust at the box office and the talent at issue has none. There's no outrage over athletes like New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez's $33 million salary or Celtic power forward Kevin Garnett's $25 million. Nor should there be. These are exceptionally talented individuals whose teams' owners think they're worth every penny.

  Linda Chavez

  New York, Revenge, Team

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• To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

  Mickey Mantle

  Roosters, Pieces, Chickens

  Edward Ford, Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle, Joseph Durso (1977). “Whitey and Mickey: A Joint Autobiography of the Yankee Years”, Viking Adult

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• Listen up, because I've got nothing to say and I'm only gonna to say it once.

  Yogi Berra

  New York Yankees

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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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• Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Memorial Day, Believe, Government

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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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• I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.

  Joe Torre

  Hated, Dodgers, Wounds

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• We were mighty short of infielders in those days

  Lou Gehrig

  New York Yankees

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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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• 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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• One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice.

  Derek Jeter

  Offering, Guy, Advice

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• I belong a Yankee. I'm really happy that I got the chance to sign a good contract, and really happy that I got the chance to stay with the Yankees. Going elsewhere, I was going to hear the offers, but the Yankees made it really tough.

  Jorge Posada

  Chance, Tough, Made

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• I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.

  Andy Pettitte

  New York, Play, Lines

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