Yankees Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.

The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.

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

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.

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.

We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.

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.

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

In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can't. With other teams, the wives always have functions to bring them together. Not here. You don't know what half the wives look like.