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  • Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht. -- Jimmy Cannon
  • Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa. -- George Steinbrenner
  • Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel. -- Joe E. Lewis
  • Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees. -- Chet Huntley
  • I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game. -- Bob Feller
  • The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three. -- Casey Stengel
  • The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees. -- Waite Hoyt
  • Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. -- Mike Royko
  • All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it. -- Dizzy Dean
  • I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants -- Pat Sajak
  • I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary. -- Yogi Berra
  • Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction. -- Bill Veeck
  • To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor - the union is short and sweet. -- Robert Rubin
  • I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees. -- Derek Jeter
  • When I first signed with the Yankees, the regulars wouldn't talk to you until you were with the team three or four years. Nowadays the rookies get $100,000 to sign and they don't talk to the regulars. -- Lefty Gomez
  • It's great to be young and a Yankee! -- Waite Hoyt
  • It's great to be young and be a Yankee! -- Joe DiMaggio
  • He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious. -- Yogi Berra
  • My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true. -- Derek Jeter
  • I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee -- Joe DiMaggio
  • So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face. -- Yogi Berra
  • He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it. -- Mel Ott
  • My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me. -- Derek Jeter
  • All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. -- John Cheever
  • I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel. -- Mickey Mantle
  • The Yankees have twenty-five heroes. -- Derek Jeter
  • We are the New York Yankees -- George Steinbrenner
  • True Yankees are born, not made. -- Jay Mohr
  • I grew up a diehard Yankees fan. -- Bubba Watson
  • When you think New York, you think Yankees. -- Jerry Buss
  • I've been a Yankees fan since I was six. -- Bob Kerrey
  • What the Yankees need is a second base coach. -- Graig Nettles
  • Never is a concept the Yankees won't ever come across. -- Andy Pettitte
  • Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports. -- Carl Yastrzemski
  • I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too. -- Bert Campaneris
  • There's no way I can go play for the Yankees. -- Johnny Damon
  • Just tip my cap and call the Yankees my daddy. -- Pedro
  • I am very happy and excited to re-sign with the Yankees. -- Hiroki Kuroda
  • I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it. -- George Pickett
  • I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both. -- Joe Torre
  • True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one. -- J. B. Smoove
  • Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM. -- George Will
  • We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned. -- George Steinbrenner
  • Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees. -- Joe Torre
  • Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • What do they call that hat Jewish guys always wear? A Yankees cap. -- Anthony Jeselnik
  • I love New York. I love the Yankees. I love the fans here. -- Hideki Matsui
  • I don't miss playing for the Yankees. I miss my friends, my teammates. -- Rafael Soriano
  • So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting. -- Bert Campaneris
  • There's no comparison to me. There's nothing like Yankees- Red Sox to me. -- Willie Randolph
  • Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them. -- Bob Feller
  • The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color. -- Reggie Jackson
  • You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees. -- Joe Torre
  • We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose. -- Billy Beane
  • I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. -- John Guare
  • I've waited a long time to be part of a franchise like this [the Yankees]. -- Mark Teixeira
  • The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees. -- Mickey Mantle
  • The Yankees are one of the best teams. I want to stay with them forever. -- Chien-Ming Wang
  • I want to be to the White Sox what Derek Jeter is to the Yankees.. -- Gordon Beckham
  • The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair. -- Derek Jeter
  • Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. -- Frank Abagnale
  • [Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. -- Margaret Mitchell
  • The Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I have no idea what that is. -- Luis Polonia
  • The good thing is we got the Yankees three times at the end of the season. -- Kevin Millar
  • The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four. -- Keith Hernandez
  • I've been with the Yankees 17 years, watching games and learning. You can see a lot by observing. -- Yogi Berra
  • I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven! -- Mark Teixeira
  • The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka. -- Mitch Williams
  • I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games. -- Harold Ford, Jr.
  • I couldn't be a White Sox fan because that was like being a Mets or a Yankees fan. -- Hillary Clinton
  • The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that. -- Jim Thorpe
  • I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants. -- Pat Sajak
  • The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees. -- Brad Faxon
  • I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player. -- Action Bronson
  • Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us. -- Al Lopez
  • Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys. -- Bert Campaneris
  • My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs? -- Wade Boggs
  • I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable. -- Mario Cuomo
  • I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special. -- Nick Johnson
  • I take a lot of pride in playing for the Yankees, and trying to do things the right way. -- Brett Gardner
  • Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan. -- Charlie Day
  • The Yankees' Facebook page was hacked. The hacker was immediately purchased and signed to a 5 year contract with the Yankees. -- Stephen Colbert
  • After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called. -- Joe Torre
  • In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees. -- Don Yaeger
  • I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better. -- Nick Johnson
  • You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees. -- Bill Lee
  • You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October. -- Whitey Ford
  • I don't have hate in my heart. I don't hate any person, place or thing...but I hate the Yankees. -- Michael Chiklis
  • As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees. -- Carl Everett
  • When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan. -- Gene Weingarten
  • For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated. -- Jane Leavy
  • I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • The guy stroked his goatee. "What do you call twenty guys watching the world series?" "The New York Yankees," Butch replied. -- J.R. Ward
  • The stadium is a part of the Yankees and the Yankees are a part of the stadium. That will never change. -- Chuck Knoblauch
  • I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships. -- Rudy Giuliani
  • When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees. -- Bernie Williams
  • As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because you either loved them or you hated them. -- Joe Torre
  • Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times. -- George Brett
  • The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here. -- Derek Jeter
  • When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both. -- Graig Nettles
  • Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate. -- Denis Leary
  • Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes. -- Billy Rose
  • I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York sports teams. -- Ian Astbury
  • I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium. -- Andy Pettitte
  • Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you. -- Vivien Leigh
  • The home run took a while to sink in because all I could think of was, 'We beat the Yankees! We beat the Yankees.' -- Bill Mazeroski
  • If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees. -- Casey Stengel
  • The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. -- Margaret Mitchell
  • The Yankees had to fight all year to get in. When you're fighting all year and fighting all year, it wears you out a little bit. -- Larry Bowa
  • Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you. -Rhett Butler -- Margaret Mitchell
  • Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler -- Margaret Mitchell
  • The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the Cubs, the Phillies, the big-name teams. -- Pete Rose
  • I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is your life and everything else is secondary. -- Gary Sheffield
  • These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people. -- Rick Bragg
  • My favorite event each year is the Yankees-Red Sox series. Love seeing passions run hot among the fans, especially when both teams are in the running for the playoffs. -- Elizabeth Banks
  • As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased. -- George Steinbrenner
  • So the guy who shot Gadhafi was wearing a Yankees cap. Did you see that? If he'd had a Boston Red Sox hat on he probably would have missed. -- David Letterman
  • I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets? -- Sparky Anderson
  • We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine. -- Penny Marshall
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