Top 70 Yankees Quotes

It’s not good or bad, but closers have changed things. I don’t think you are going to win a World Series without one. Where would the Yankees be without Mariano Rivera?

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

I have sensitive skin, so I don’t use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!

I started out wanting to be a fireman and would cry if my mother tried to take off my ‘Emergency 51’ hat, so she had to wait until I fell asleep. Then it was on to another cap: I wanted to play first base for the Yankees.

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.

To join Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys was like throwing a baseball around in your front yard and somebody coming over and signing you to play for the New York Yankees.

I remember the first time I played the triple-A Yankees when I was 20 years old, and Darryl Strawberry was on that team. It was the first time I actually got goose bumps playing against another team.

The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the Cubs, the Phillies, the big-name teams.

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.

It was a crazy series, 1960. The Yankees were predicted to beat us four straight. And on paper, we couldn’t match them because they had better players. But we also had twenty-five guys that wanted to win, and we did everything we could to win.

I was in New York, I went to a Yankees game and I called and said, ‘Can I get tickets to the Knicks game?’ They said, ‘We can’t get you tickets no more to the Knicks game.’… They had tickets, but they said they didn’t have no tickets for me.

You watch all those moments that Jeter had for the Yankees. You can tell by the fans’ reaction how much he meant to them and how much he meant to the city, how much he meant to the game of baseball.

I’ve been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-’70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in ’77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.

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

People talked a lot about this upcoming talent on the Yankees and it was something that you kind of saw coming. These kids were so hungry and I believe that’s why they became so successful. They worked very hard and they were so hungry, and I think that leads to wins.

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.

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

Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

I play rec softball sort of religiously. I’m a huge baseball fan. When I lived in New York City, I’d go to a Yankees game every week.

True Yankees are born, not made.

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?

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.

I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.

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

I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

Instead of a passion for the Yankees or fly-fishing or birding, I want to pass on to my sons a love of books, music, and art. I accept that this is partly about the gratification of my own ego, but it’s also one of the only ways I know of making a rich life. That’s what we all want for our progeny.

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

We can’t do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we’ll lose.

I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It’s an amazing feeling.

I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers’ Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.

I never went through a period were I wanted to be a doctor, a cop or even a rock star. All I wanted to do was play short stop for the Yankees from the time I was about 5. Then I turned 15 and realized how silly that was and just gave up on it.

To put on the pinstripe – it’s extraordinary. Just being able to play one game with the Yankees is quite an honor.

When I played, Old-Timers’ Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one of the great Yankees… It was an out-of-body experience.

My dad was a huge Yankees fan, huge Jets fan – he’s really into sports. He had all sorts of memorabilia and cool things around the house. I would always just sit and watch Yankees games with my dad. Growing up, I was just very involved with the Jets, Yankees and sports because of my dad.

It’s a natural push and pull that exists in any sports organization. When you are in a big market and then you win, and you’re up against the Yankees, and ratings are what they are and attendance is what it is, no one wants to go backwards; as a business, you don’t want to go backwards.

The New York Yankees’ organization – they train us well from the get-go. They tell us how to handle everything.

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.

I love baseball. As a teenager, I was a contrarian and picked the underdog instead of just rooting for the Yankees. It’s a hard team to root for, but there’s something that always keeps me hopeful.

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

I am a Yankees fan. I should say – have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.

I’m a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.

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.

The draft is a crapshoot, so I’ve been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.

To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it’s pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it’s still sort of unbelievable to me.

I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.

Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they’d be in any other city.

Chicago started doing the same thing, bringing on young players in the beginning combined with veterans, and it worked for them. The Yankees are similar in that way.

To stay sane, I lived in my head, where I could travel and imagine. In my mind, I played a championship game with the Knicks. I won Wimbledon five times. If the Yankees needed a home run, I came to bat.

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

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

Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat’s Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.

We want to try and transform the Red Sox into a team like the Braves or the Yankees, where you can almost count on the postseason every year.

I’d say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers – just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians – by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.

The Dodgers to me are the Yankees of the National League.

Look, do I like the Mets and the Yankees? Absolutely.