Yankees Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.

  Fidel Castro

  Military, Real, Moving

  Fidel Castro (1969). “Fidel Castro Speaks”

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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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• The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Letting Go, Teeth, Creation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4019, Delphi Classics

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• I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.

  Jim Kaat

  Survivor, Classroom, All Time

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• So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.

  Bert Campaneris

  Play, Exciting

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• Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.

  Charlie Day

  Growing Up, Rhode Island, Islands

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• I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back east and catch Yankees games. His side of the family are big Yankees fans. But, the real connection came in '97 when I moved to New York and became friends with the team.

  Carson Daly

  New York, Father, Real

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• I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.

  Johnny Damon

  Whole Life, Feels, Whole

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• When you think New York, you think Yankees.

  Jerry Buss

  New York, Thinking

  "The answer man". Interview with Steve Springer, www.espn.com.au. March 24, 2010.

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• Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.

  John Fogerty

  Dog, Heart, Men

  Song: I Saw It On T.V, Album: Centerfield

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• Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect.

  Manny Farber

  Pride, Winning, Years

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.88, Library of America

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• I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.

  Nick Johnson

  Play, League, Special

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• I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.

  Nick Johnson

  Made, Made It

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• You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

  Nick Johnson

  Player, Yankee Stadium, Looks

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