Yankees Quotes
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I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
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Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.
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I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
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We were mighty short of infielders in those days
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Southern Jews is good Jews. It the Yankees I worry about.
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I think it's silly. Losing those seats for teams like the Yankees and Angels, they'll lose revenue. They're going to choke themselves. I think Lew Wolff is a good owner, but I don't think closing the upper deck is going to do it for them.
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Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports.
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Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.
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I never went through a period were I wanted to be a doctor, a cop or even a rock star. All I wanted to do was play short stop for the Yankees from the time I was about 5. Then I turned 15 and realized how silly that was and just gave up on it.
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I know who the leader is on the team, ... I ain't going to say who it is, but I know who it is. I know who the team feeds off. I know who the opposing team comes in knowing they have to defend to stop the Yankees.
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They brought me in and told me they were probably going to pick the option up. You always want to earn whatever you get. I take a lot pride in that. He didn't have to bring me in today. I appreciate that. When I was a free agent, a lot of teams called and I really didn't answer. There was only one place, and that still remains the same. I don't want to play for nobody else but the Yankees.
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Anytime we'd beat the Yankees one game it was like beating somebody else three.
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I've hit third all my life. But I'm hitting fourth for the Yankees. You can't beat that.
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Dad always says, 'The Yankees got all the records and we got the rings,'
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I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.
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When it's done, that's the right time. When it happens, I'm sure it will catch me off-guard and I'll be happy. And if it doesn't happen, I'll have to do what I have to do. I just want to put on the uniform and do what I do. It's the fans that make me play the way I play. When I get the energy out of right field, especially in the Yankees uniform, those fans make me do what I do. I couldn't have played with one arm in Colorado. You can't motivate me enough to do that. Only the Yankees fans bring that out of me.
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He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.
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The NFL has a hard cap, but if you ask 20 NFL experts who is going to win the Super Bowl this year, you might get 20 different answers. If you then asked 20 baseball experts who is going to represent the American League in the World Series, at least 90 percent of them would say the Yankees and the rest would say Seattle.
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I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.
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What can I say--just tip my hat and call the Yankees my daddy. I can't find a way to beat them at this point.
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Yankees are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
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We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned.
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It would be sweeter, ... Everybody would like to see the Yankees not make the postseason one year. If Boston wins that division, and we do our job by beating the Yankees, it would be a tremendous thing. It means we're playing good baseball against a team that sets the standard for good baseball.
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I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.
