Yankees Quotes - Page 4

• We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.

  Casey Stengel

  Play, New York Yankees

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• I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.

  Mark Teixeira

  Love Is, Play, Special

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• Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.

  Frank Abagnale

  Team, Winning

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• My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

  Wade Boggs

  Sports, Monday, Headlines

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• The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

  Wade Boggs

  Sports, New York, Winning

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• If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

  FaceBook post by Derek Jeter from Aug 29, 2012

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• You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Success, Winning

  "Earning a rep". Sports Illustrated, October 25, 2003.

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• You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Jobs, Fun

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• We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Winning, Past

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• God, I hope I wear this jersey forever.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Success, Winning

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

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• The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.

  Derek Jeter

  Careers, Whole, Fortunate

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• The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.

  Derek Jeter

  Hair, Mustache, Strict

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• You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Care, Sensitive

  "Derek Jeter: In his own words". Sports Illustrated interview, www.si.com. November 30, 2009.

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• What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, People, Parent

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• Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate.

  Denis Leary

  Hate, Let Me

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• Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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

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• To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Years, Play

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• The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Doctors, Soldier, Calling

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

  Pat Conroy

  Up North, Tacky, Needs

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.532, Open Road Media

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• Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles' sabre in her hand. Scarlett remembered that she had thought at the time: 'How silly! Melly couldn't even heft that sword!' But now she knew that had the necessity arisen, Melanie would have charged down those stairs and killed the Yankee - or been killed herself.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Silly, Blue, Hands

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• [Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Manners, Accents, Terrible

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.214, Hamilton Books

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• It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman, love comes after marriage.” “Oh, Pa, that’s such an Old Country notion!” “And a good notion it is! All this American business of running around marrying for love, like servants, like Yankees! The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Running, Country

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.22, Hamilton Books

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• I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Dog, Texas, Soldier

  George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel”, p.82, Penguin

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• Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

  Tim McCarver

  Sports, Years, Dumb

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• Just tip my cap and call the Yankees my daddy.

  Pedro

  Sports, Daddy, Dumb

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