Yankees Quotes - Page 10

I hate to see it go, I'll tell you that. I played here all my life. Eighteen years I played here and I'm sorry to see it go.

I don't see how he lost five games during the season.

I don't know. How hot is it supposed to be?

What a house - nothin' but rooms!

There's no comparison to me. There's nothing like Yankees- Red Sox to me.

Every once in a while, someone would call me a foreigner or a Yankee, or whatever. In the United States, someone might say something, like how kids do, to point out that you're different. That would come as a surprise to me. As you get old, you either get defensive about it or you accept it and you reach out, because you realize the world's full of people like that.

When I was 2, I used to put pictures of the Manhattan skyline in a little scrapbook. And I used to wear American 'stars and stripe' vests and Daytona Beach stuff and they used to call me 'The Little Yankee.' Thank you to my producers for having faith in a little nobody from Lancashire.

I wasn't ever much of a Yankee fan.

Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all.

It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.

A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion. . . . A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.

I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.

I read one time that I am permanently banned from Yankee Stadium and that I could never ever go back. This article mentioned, supposedly, that I did something in the early 2000s at Yankee Stadium, and I got arrested, and supposedly, allegedly, I went to jail for something that I did. I read that about myself one time and I thought that was pretty fascinating.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

I don't miss playing for the Yankees. I miss my friends, my teammates.

We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine.

Just tip my cap and call the Yankees my daddy.

Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a New Englander. He taught from '48 to '49 and '50 at Black Mountain College. That's where he met Kenneth Snelson. Fuller kind of stayed a Yankee right in the New England area. So it was pretty easy to get him to come on over, and we would have lectures at the Harvard Science Center.

Sometimes the hitter get a hit, sometimes I strike them out, but in niether case does anyone die.

I always feel pressure. What I don't have is fear. But pressure, there always is, and whoever says otherwise is lying.

I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.

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

The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka.

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

After they remodeled Yankee Stadium I didn't feel that the ghosts were there anymore. It just wasn't the same.