Yankees Quotes

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. (John Paul Stevens)
Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa. View quote
George Steinbrenner
We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned. View quote
George Steinbrenner
Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us. View quote
Al Lopez
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. View quote
Al Michaels
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. View quote
Bo Jackson
So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting. View quote
Bert Campaneris
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. View quote
Dave Winfield
The players get no respect around here. They (the Yankees) give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here. View quote
Don Mattingly
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. View quote
Goose Gossage
When you think New York, you think Yankees. (Jerry Buss)
Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect. View quote
Manny Farber
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. View quote
Mike Royko
I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special. View quote
Nick Johnson
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. View quote
Roger Clemens
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? View quote
Sparky Anderson
The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three. View quote
Casey Stengel
Every Australian band wants to stick it to the Yankees. View quote
Chris Cheney
Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. View quote
Frank Abagnale
It seems to me, all created critters look down on each other. The British and French look down on the Yankees, and colonists look down upon niggers and Indians, while we look down upon them all. It's the way of the world, I do suppose; but the road ain't a pleasant one. View quote
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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. (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. View quote
Margaret Mitchell
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. View quote
Margaret Mitchell
As a nation, we are too young to have true mythic heroes, and we must press real human beings into service. Honest Abe Lincoln the legend is quite a different character from Abraham Lincoln the man. And so should they be. And so should both be treasured, as long as they are distinguished. In a complex and confusing world, the perfect clarity of sports provides a focus for legitimate, utterly unambiguous support [or] disdain. The Dodgers are evil, the Yankees good. They really are, and have been for as long as anyone in my family can remember. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Speaking of that last contract signing reminds me of a good laugh I had at the expense of the newspaper boys. There were a couple of dozen of them sticking around when I signed, some of them fellows who had been traveling with the Yankees for several seasons; fellows whom I know intimately and well. Yet in their stories, every one of them wrote about me signing that contract with my left hand and some of the newspapers even ran pictures showing me signing left-handed! How they managed it I don't know-for as a matter of fact I write with my right hand now, and I always have. I'm left-handed in everything else I do, but when it comes to writing I'm as right-handed as any right-hander you ever saw. It just goes to show that people take a lot of things for granted. They don't observe things closely, particularly things about which they feel confident. View quote
Babe Ruth