Yankees Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion. . . . A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Religious, Passion, Race

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• Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.

  Vivien Leigh

  Laughing, Heaven, Helping

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• What you've lost sight of is what you are, and what you are is what you hate. You're the 10-time WWE Champion! You're the man! You, like the Red Sox, like Boston, are no longer the underdog! You're a dynasty. You are what you hate. You have become the New York Yankees!

  CM Punk

  Inspiring, New York, Hate

  "WWE Raw" with John Cena, July 11, 2011.

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• I don't have hate in my heart. I don't hate any person, place or thing...but I hate the Yankees.

  Michael Chiklis

  Hate, Heart, Persons

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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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• 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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• The players get no respect around here. They (the Yankees) give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here.

  Don Mattingly

  Team, Player, Giving

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• I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed

  Roger Clemens

  New York, Team, Guy

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• Always follow your dreams, don't let anyone tell you that you can't be something.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Dream, Follow Your Dreams, New York Yankees

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• Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

  Casey Stengel

  People, Age, Looks

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• Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo told him that a man wearing Yankee pinstripes in front of 30,000 people should not end a sentence with a preposition. So Pinella, no dummy, said, "OK, where was that pitch at, asshole?"

  George Will

  Men, Umpires, People

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• When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees.

  Bernie Williams

  Team, Play, Careers

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• When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Dream, Years, Yankee Stadium

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• There are things about Joe Torre, if I wanted to come out and say, would show how cold and calculated he really is... Joe Torre is for Joe Torre. ... The graveyard of Yankees coaches is loaded with bones of coaches Joe Torre did nothing about.

  Michael Kay

  Cold, Bones, Torres

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• We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine.

  Penny Marshall

  Baseball, Smell, Cards

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think you learn. You learn from your mistakes. You learn from things you do and try to stay away from the negatives in your life. I think I've grown.

  Jorge Posada

  Mistake, Thinking, Trying

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• I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

  Ron Kovic

  Memorial Day, Home, July

  Ron Kovic (2016). “Born on the Fourth of July: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Akashic Books

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• When I was a teenager and my brother Frank was in the World Series in '57 and '58 against the Yankees, Braves winning in '57 and the Yankees in '58, little did I know the next time these two teams would meet in the World Series, I would be managing the Yankees.

  Joe Torre

  Brother, Teenager, Team

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• Any ballplayers that played for me on either the Cardinals or the Yankees could come to me if he were in need and I would give him a helping hand. I made only two exceptions, Carl Mays and Joe Bush. If they were in a gutter, I'd kick them.

  Miller Huggins

  Hands, Two, Giving

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