Top 177 Yankee Quotes & Sayings

I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.

It's great to be young and a Yankee!

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

Yankee Stadium is a mistake: Not mine - the Giants'.

O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For men have none at all, or bad at least; And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many The "good old times" were far the worst of any, Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle Yet still I think these worst a little. I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?- I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways - I've been a thinking, whether it were best To Take things seriously, Or all in jest

I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mothers family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.

I'm so excited about the new [Yankee] stadium!

To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true.

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

The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.

I feel like I owe the Yankee fan base my A-game.

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.

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

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

I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee.

I remember, my first job when I got my working papers at 13 was as a vendor at Yankee Stadium - the old Yankee Stadium, with very steep stairs in the upper decks. It was all commission-based. And I think a soft drink was 25 cents, and I think you got a 10 percent or 11 percent commission.

Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win.

I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.

After they remodeled Yankee Stadium I didn't feel that the ghosts were there anymore. It just wasn't the same.

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.'

I'm happy to be with this organization, and I hope to retire as a Yankee.

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

The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee is nothing else on earth but himself.

I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.

One of my biggest gifts ever, my mother made a Yankee uniform for me as a little boy, and I wore it to bed dreaming I could pitch in the major leagues and then be a Yankee.

I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mother's family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.

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

Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo told him that a man wearing Yankee pinstripes in front of 30,000 people should not end a sentence with a preposition. So Pinella, no dummy, said, "OK, where was that pitch at, asshole?"

Around New York, I used to hear that expression, 'Once a Dodger, always a Dodger.' But how about, 'Once a Yankee, always a Yankee?' There never was anything better than that. You never get over it.

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

I read one time that I am permanently banned from Yankee Stadium and that I could never ever go back. This article mentioned, supposedly, that I did something in the early 2000s at Yankee Stadium, and I got arrested, and supposedly, allegedly, I went to jail for something that I did. I read that about myself one time and I thought that was pretty fascinating.

Your pitching coach is almost like your spouse. He's someone to go to when you want to gripe and complain. The big thing for me with Mel (Stottlemyre) is that we've been through so much together. He's been through everything I've been through on the mound. He was a Yankee who won twenty games in New York and a Yankee who didn't win twenty games in New York. For me, he's been there and that's what makes a good pitching coach. He's a good man, too.

I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.

This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness

I think the good Lord is a Yankee.

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

The best thing about being a Yankee is getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day. The worst thing about being a Yankee? Getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day

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

Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans.

I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.

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

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

Here's the thing: I had never been to Boston, my whole life. Probably because I'm a Yankee fan.

The great thing about being a Yankee is that youre always a Yankee.

The thing that means the most to me is being remembered as a Yankee, because that's what I've always wanted to be, was to be a Yankee.

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.

I wasn't ever much of a Yankee fan.

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

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

Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York Yankee.

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

Yankee Stadium was the only thing we had in the Bronx. It was an institution.

Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.

I'm proud to be a New York Yankee.

Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don't matter.

I grew up a Yankee fan. My whole family are Yankee fans. My mom, my dad, my grandpa, everybody. Really, every generation of my family has been Yankee fans.

Hopkins is talking about fighting at Yankee Stadium but that's rubbish. If he fought at Yankee Stadium, even the ushers wouldn't want to watch him. Bernard Hopkins couldn't draw breath.

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

It's great to be young and be a Yankee!

I may not have been the best Yankee to put on the pinstripes, but I am the proudest.