Yankees Quotes

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.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

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

There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

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.

I don't have hate in my heart. I don't hate any person, place or thing...but I hate the Yankees.

It's like deja-vu, all over again.

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

Always follow your dreams, don't let anyone tell you that you can't be something.

The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running.

I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'

The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

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

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just laughed in a saloon, or at a social, the laugh didn't reach deep.

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

Out of what... a thousand?

Ninety percent of this game is half mental.

I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee.

This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.

In my opinion, I've had the greatest job in the world. I got a chance to be the shortstop for the New York Yankees, and there's only one of those. And I always felt as though it was my job, was to try to provide joy and entertainment for you guys, but it can't compare to what you brought me. So for that, thank you very much.

When I look in the mirror, I look at the enemy. There is no one to blame for this but myself. I should have bought myself a mirror a long time ago.

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

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn't. My number was up.

I went to the doctor, and they found something in my bladder. And whenever they find something, it's never anything good like, "We found something in your bladder AND IT'S SEASON TICKETS TO THE YANKEES!!"

Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.

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

After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.

My favorite is when you go to Afghanistan and you meet the special forces guys, and they look like these heavily armed surfers. These guys are the best. You see guys dressed as full Afghans, but then wearing a Yankees hat.

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.

I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants

Maybe they made me captain because I've been here so long. But if I'm supposed to lead by example, then I'll be a terrible captain.

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?"

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

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

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.

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