Yankees Quotes - Page 6

• It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and my first.

  Mark Teixeira

  Player, Honor, Firsts

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• His reputation preceded him before he got here.

  Don Mattingly

  Reputation, New York Yankees

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

  Yogi Berra

  Games, Lost, Five

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• Maybe they made me captain because I've been here so long. But if I'm supposed to lead by example, then I'll be a terrible captain.

  Thurman Munson

  Long, Captains, Example

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• He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season.

  Lefty Gomez

  Two, Way, Ruts

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• Out of what... a thousand?

  Mickey Rivers

  New York Yankees, Thousand

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• Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck?

  Casey Stengel

  Defense, Pardon Me, Deck

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• Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about the (perfect) game, but I don't remember when it happened last.

  Don Larsen

  Thinking, Games, Perfect

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• I don't want to throw him nothing. Maybe he'll just get tired of waiting and leave.

  Lefty Gomez

  Tired, Waiting, Want

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• Derek (Jeter) told me the ghosts would show up eventually!

  Aaron Boone

  Jeter, Ghost, Shows

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• I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all.

  George Steinbrenner

  Clubs, Balls, Operations

  "Yankee Imperialist" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. July 8, 2002.

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• There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.

  Johnny Damon

  Play, Way, I Can

  "BASEBALL; Yankees Add Their Centerpiece" by Tyler Kepner, www.nytimes.com. December 21, 2005.

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• Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

  Don Baylor

  Baseball, New York, Father

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• 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.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Kids, People, World

  "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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• Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

  John Shelton Reed

  Moving, Past, Race

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• The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Country, Latin, America

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• I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

  Casey Stengel

  Mistake, New York Yankees

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been a Yankees fan since I was six.

  Bob Kerrey

  Fans, Six

  "Bob Kerrey Will Call Your Bullshit" by Ted Genoways, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2012.

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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, Yankee Stadium, Looks

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

  Nick Johnson

  Made, Made It

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

  Nick Johnson

  Play, League, Special

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• Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect.

  Manny Farber

  Pride, Winning, Years

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.88, Library of America

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• Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.

  John Fogerty

  Dog, Heart, Men

  Song: I Saw It On T.V, Album: Centerfield

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• When you think New York, you think Yankees.

  Jerry Buss

  New York, Thinking

  "The answer man". Interview with Steve Springer, www.espn.com.au. March 24, 2010.

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• I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.

  Curt Schilling

  Mistake, Mean, Fans

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