Yankees Quotes - Page 6

The first year was weird. I knew I was just there to talk to pitchers and not step on any toes. I could feel my adrenaline start to flow in about the sixth inning. I had to tell myself, "What the hell are you getting excited about? You're not going anywere, big boy. Just go sign some autographs." I was still programmed.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.

Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate.

When you're losing, you see what your team is made of.

This 20th win means more to me than the perfect game in 1968.

They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.

Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

I've been with the Yankees 17 years, watching games and learning. You can see a lot by observing.

My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of the New York Yankees or the Houston Oilers, or what label "Hang On Sloopy" by The McCoys was on, you are capable of remembering the differences between a gerund (verb form used as a noun) and a participle (verb form used as an adjective).

I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

Any ballplayers that played for me on either the Cardinals or the Yankees could come to me if he were in need and I would give him a helping hand. I made only two exceptions, Carl Mays and Joe Bush. If they were in a gutter, I'd kick them.

They should have come out of the dugout on tippy-toes, holding hands and singing.

I know what kind of pitcher Whitey was, and I know what kind of person Whitey is. It makes me feel proud to be a Yankee. We're keeping this in the family.

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

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.

I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.