Yankees Quotes - Page 12

The day I got called up to the majors I wasn't feeling well. I had gone out with my friends for 'sodas' the night before.

I feel emptiness, and he probably won't be able to close his eyes for two or three days.

I've seen that picture before. It was a two-seamer that didn't sink until it hit the upper deck somewhere.

You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.

When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

Boomer is ... Boomer. That pretty much tells you all you need to know

A lot of pitchers today are afraid of the ball. Warren Spahn pinch-hit for me when I was a rookie. He hit a sacrifice fly. I couldn't argue. I was 20 years old and just happy to be in the big leagues. And Spahnnie was a good hitter.

I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because you either loved them or you hated them.

I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox.

When he took BP everybody would kind of stop what they were doing and watch.

A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everbody else.

The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.

It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half of us were nuts by the end of a season.

When you think New York, you think Yankees.

Seriously, our nation is never going to be on the same page on issues like gun control, welfare, the economy, the environment, etc. I doubt we'll ever come to terms on tastes great or less filling and hybrids versus Hummers, and there will always be Yankees fans and Red Sox fans, and never the 'twain shall meet. Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.

True Yankees are born, not made.

The guy stroked his goatee. "What do you call twenty guys watching the world series?" "The New York Yankees," Butch replied.

In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.

True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.

I couldn't be a White Sox fan because that was like being a Mets or a Yankees fan.

I love New York, I love the Yankees, I love the fans here.