Yankees Quotes

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.

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

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

Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

True Yankees are born, not made.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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 loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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