Yankees Quotes

I don't see how he lost five games during the season.

He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season.

It took him 75 steps to get from third to home. I thought we were going to have to go out there and help him. A lot of players start thinking double then maybe wind up with a triple because the outfielder slips.

Sometimes the hitter get a hit, sometimes I strike them out, but in niether case does anyone die.

When you're losing, you see what your team is made of.

The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.

This 20th win means more to me than the perfect game in 1968.

Yeah? For what paper?

I don't think I've ever seen anybody with quicker hands than Soriano.

There's always some youngster coming up- they'll find somebody.

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

Listen up, because I've got nothing to say and I'm only gonna to say it once.

His reputation preceded him before he got here.

I know what kind of pitcher Whitey was, and I know what kind of person Whitey is. It makes me feel proud to be a Yankee. We're keeping this in the family.

Out of what... a thousand?

What did I do to deserve this?

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

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.

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.

I didn't come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me.

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

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

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

How come it rains every Hall of Fame weekend? They need to move it to a different weekend.

I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul."

There is a feeling when you are in Yankee Stadium that it is a very sacred ground you are walking on and you know you had the same feelings that other great players have had in other eras that played right there on that field.

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee

I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.

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

I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.

To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play!

Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.

Cameron Indoor Stadium is a special place in sports and there's really nothing else out there quite like it. Anytime I'm inside Cameron, I've got memories. Cameron is like Yankee Stadium or the old Boston Garden.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

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

Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

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.

I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It's like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees.

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

I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.

I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.

There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.

If you don't know where you're going any road will do