Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bert Campaneris

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

Bernie Williams

My experience over 17 years playing with the Yankees, these are a few of the things that I've learned. You've got to have a plan of action, You have to stay focused on the things you can control, and don't get discouraged or distracted by the things you cannot control.

Dizzy Dean

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

Aaron Boone

Derek (Jeter) told me the ghosts would show up eventually!

Babe Ruth

Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.

David Letterman

So the guy who shot Gadhafi was wearing a Yankees cap. Did you see that? If he'd had a Boston Red Sox hat on he probably would have missed.

Andy Pettitte

Never is a concept the Yankees won't ever come across.

Don Mattingly

What did I do to deserve this?

Don Mattingly

His reputation preceded him before he got here.

Don Zimmer

One hundred ten thousand ears in this ballpark, and he's got to hit my ear.

Don Zimmer

I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus.

Don Zimmer

Everyone keeps me telling me how great a knee replacement is. Whitey Ford said it was great and so did Ralph Branca. If I had one of those, I don't know that I would retire. But if I left for a month or more, who's going to want me back?

Curt Schilling

Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans.

Alfonso Soriano

I don't want to change. I haven't done it before, I won't do it now.

Anthony Jeselnik

What do they call that hat Jewish guys always wear? A Yankees cap.

Derek Jeter

The great thing about being a Yankee is that youre always a Yankee.

Derek Jeter

I will never brag about myself, but my family, I can go on forever.

Charlaine Harris

This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness

Bob Kerrey

I've been a Yankees fan since I was six.

Casey Stengel

Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch.

Casey Stengel

You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.

Casey Stengel

We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.

Casey Stengel

If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed.

Casey Stengel

If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.

Casey Stengel

Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck?

Casey Stengel

Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.

Mark Teixeira

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

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.

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.