Yankee Stadium Quotes

• My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Dream, Winning

  Derek Jeter (2010). “The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams”, p.21, Broadway Books

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• My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Dream, Hero

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• When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Yankees, Ruth

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• I was at Yankee Stadium one time at 5 a.m., but that was to buy angel dust

  Artie Lange

  Angel, Yankees, Dust

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• In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.

  Reggie Jackson

  Sports, Yankees, People

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• Yankee Stadium is my favorite stadium; I'm not going to lie to you. There's a certain feel you get in Yankee Stadium.

  Derek Jeter

  Lying, Yankees, My Favorite

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• To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Yankees, Years

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

  Nomar Garciaparra

  Sports, Yankees, Yankee Fans

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

  Nick Johnson

  Player, Yankees, Looks

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• Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.

  Roger Maris

  Baseball, Yankees, Years

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• There is a feeling when you are in Yankee Stadium that it is a very sacred ground you are walking on and you know you had the same feelings that other great players have had in other eras that played right there on that field.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Player, Yankees, Feelings

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. February 16, 2007.

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• During the 1920s New York Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert once described his perfect afternoon at Yankee Stadium. 'It's when the Yankees score eight runs in the first inning,' Ruppert said, 'and then slowly pull away.'

  Peter Golenbock

  Baseball, Running, New York

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• Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That’s a more fruitful way to be.

  Mary Karr

  Girl, Children, Yankees

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• Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.

  Bob Feller

  Country, Europe, Old Buildings

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• There are so many great moments in Yankee Stadium. There is nothing better or no better place better to compete when you are good and the Yankees are good and you are playing a big series in September in Yankee Stadium, four game series, there is no greater excitement anywhere than the Yankee Stadium.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Yankees, Games, Four

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. February 16, 2007.

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• If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

  FaceBook post by Derek Jeter from Aug 29, 2012

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• Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.

  Mary Karr

  Children, Writing, Gulliver

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• I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee

  Joe DiMaggio

  Yankees, Famous Baseball, Want

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• The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of the ladder, the top of the mountain. You don't just play the Opry; you live it.

  Bill Anderson

  Baseball, Country, Player

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• When you go hard your nays become yays. Yankee stadium with Jays and Kanyes.

  Nicki Minaj

  Determination, Yankees, Yay

  Song: Fly I Believe I Can Fly, Album: Pink Friday

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• We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Winning, Past

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

  Mickey Mantle

  Yankees, Thrill, Stadiums

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• I've kicked at Notre Dame the past four years, I've been in frigid cold weather, snow. I've kicked at Yankee Stadium in December, so whatever is thrown at me I'm able to do.

  Kyle Brindza

  Past, Yankees, Years

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• I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• When I take the mound in Yankee Stadium I feel like my stuff is going to be better than ever.

  Andy Pettitte

  Yankees, Stuff, Stadiums

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