Yankees Quotes

Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.

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.

Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with.

My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

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

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is your life and everything else is secondary.

Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.

We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned.

OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.

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

I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox.

True Yankees are born, not made.

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.

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

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

I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.

As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.

I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?

I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.