Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Mohr

True Yankees are born, not made.

Bubba Watson

I grew up a diehard Yankees fan.

Mickey Mantle

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

Mickey Mantle

The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.

Kevin Millar

The good thing is we got the Yankees three times at the end of the season.

Mel Ott

He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.

Margaret Mitchell

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

Margaret Mitchell

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.

Margaret Mitchell

Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.

Pat Sajak

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

Lefty Gomez

I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club.

Lefty Gomez

I don't know. I've never been on second before.

Lefty Gomez

Only triple I ever got.

Lefty Gomez

You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.

Henry David Thoreau

It is true, these Roman Catholics, priests and all, impress me as a people who have fallen far behind the significance of their symbols. It is as if an ox had strayed into a church and were trying to bethink himself. Nevertheless, they are capable of reverence; but we Yankees are a people in whom this sentiment has nearly died out, and in this respect we cannot bethink ourselves even as oxen.

George Steinbrenner

I'll stick to building ships.

George Steinbrenner

I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all.

George Steinbrenner

I'm pretty excited, this is a big, big one.

George Steinbrenner

Irabu is a fat, pus-y toad.

George Steinbrenner

I guess heaven needed a shortstop.

George Steinbrenner

Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

Michael Kay

There are things about Joe Torre, if I wanted to come out and say, would show how cold and calculated he really is... Joe Torre is for Joe Torre. ... The graveyard of Yankees coaches is loaded with bones of coaches Joe Torre did nothing about.

Mark Teixeira

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

Mark Teixeira

I'm so excited about the new [Yankee] stadium!

Mark Teixeira

I've waited a long time to be part of a franchise like this [the Yankees].

Nick Johnson

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

Johnny Damon

I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.

Johnny Damon

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.

Johnny Damon

There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.

John Paul Stevens

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.

Jorge Posada

He pitches better when he's mad, so I try to make him that way.

Jorge Posada

I belong a Yankee. I'm really happy that I got the chance to sign a good contract, and really happy that I got the chance to stay with the Yankees. Going elsewhere, I was going to hear the offers, but the Yankees made it really tough.

Jorge Posada

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