Yankees Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes.

  Billy Rose

  War, Men, Thinking

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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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• Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

  John Shelton Reed

  Moving, Past, Race

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• I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.

  Curt Schilling

  Mistake, Mean, Fans

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• This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.

  Harper Lee

  Home, Fighting, Matter

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Unions, Remarkable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.378, Harvard University Press

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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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• 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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• YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Europe, Southern, Unions

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.

  Jim Bouton

  Baseball, New York Yankees

  Jim Bouton (1984). “Ball Four Plus Ball”, Scarborough House

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• Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

  George Brett

  Winning, Years, Games

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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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• 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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• There's no comparison to me. There's nothing like Yankees- Red Sox to me.

  Willie Randolph

  Red, Comparison

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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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• Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all!. . . The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us."

  Vivien Leigh

  Tired, Effort, Wish

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• Every once in a while, someone would call me a foreigner or a Yankee, or whatever. In the United States, someone might say something, like how kids do, to point out that you're different. That would come as a surprise to me. As you get old, you either get defensive about it or you accept it and you reach out, because you realize the world's full of people like that.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Kids, People, World

  "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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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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• Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That’s a more fruitful way to be.

  Mary Karr

  Girl, Children, Yankee Stadium

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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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• 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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