Quotes of: Yankee Keyword

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 wor...

Poetry, Tales and Selected Essays

Wood Hite: Oh, I'm a good old rebel, Now thats just what I am, And for this yankee nation, I do no give a damn. I'm glad I fought a ganner, I only wish we won. I aint asked any pardon for anything I've done. I hates the yankee nation and eveything th...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

James Caan

Daniel Hochleitner: You are the Yankee they talk about? John Book: I thought I was the English.

Witness

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

Whitey Ford

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

Mike Royko

I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!

Mark Teixeira

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

Nick Johnson

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

I grew up an Indians fan my entire life. I was never really 'against' the Yankees, but I knew what they were capable of.

Bill Mazeroski

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

John Cheever

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.

Charlie Day

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

Bob Feller

Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.

Jules Verne

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

Dizzy Dean

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

I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.

Pat Sajak

Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer, is constructively in h...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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

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

The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.

Keith Hernandez