Yankees Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• All pitchers are born pitchers.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Born, Pitcher, New York Yankees

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• The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of the ladder, the top of the mountain. You don't just play the Opry; you live it.

  Bill Anderson

  Baseball, Country, Player

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• The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

  John Quincy Adams

  Art, Zero, Air

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• True Yankees are born, not made.

  Jay Mohr

  Born, Made

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• Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm saying very plainly that the Yankees are better equipped than we. . . . All we've got is cotton and slaves, and arrogance." "I seem to be spoiling everybody's brandy and cigars and dreams of victory."

  Clark Gable

  Dream, War, Winning

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• There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is expected. That is debilitating. Don't let that happen to you. At Deutsch we go into every pitch assuming we are the Yankees. It's amazing what happens when you go into a room of smart, hungry people and say, "Failure is not an option." People are galvanized.

  Donny Deutsch

  Inspirational, Smart, Failure

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• A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"

  Lefty Gomez

  Running, Funny Baseball, Pitching

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• 'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.

  Joe Lieberman

  Baseball, Country, Teacher

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• And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than fond memories and fast friendships. The enduring qualities of Massachusetts - the common threads woven by the Pilgrim and the Puritan, the fisherman and the farmer, the Yankee and the immigrant - will not be and could not be forgotten in the Nations Executive Mansion. They are an indelible part of my life, my convictions, my view of the past, my hopes for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Lonely, Memories

  Address to the Massachusetts legislature on January 09, 1961. "Congressional Record", Volume 107, Appendix, p. A169, January 10, 1961.

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• I was known as a Yankee killer. My best year against them was 1953. I beat them five times and shut them out four times. You just played a little harder against them.

  Mel Parnell

  Years, Best Year, Four

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• The Yankees have twenty-five heroes.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Hero, Twenties

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• Our fans don't want to see us win the Wild Card. They want to see us win the division.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Winning, Fans

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• Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways to make an impact during the course of a game, and playing solid, sound defense is one of them.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Baseball, Winning

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• Yankee Stadium is my favorite stadium; I'm not going to lie to you. There's a certain feel you get in Yankee Stadium.

  Derek Jeter

  Lying, Yankee Stadium, My Favorite

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• Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.

  Roger Maris

  Baseball, Years, Play

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• I want to own a team one day. You know, that's my next goal.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Team, Goal

  "The Lead with Jake Tapper", www.cnn.com. March 29, 2013.

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• The great thing about being a Yankee is that youre always a Yankee.

  Derek Jeter

  Great Things

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• In my opinion, I've had the greatest job in the world. I got a chance to be the shortstop for the New York Yankees, and there's only one of those. And I always felt as though it was my job, was to try to provide joy and entertainment for you guys, but it can't compare to what you brought me. So for that, thank you very much.

  Derek Jeter

  Jobs, New York, Guy

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