Zitat des Tages über Yankees:
We've got to stand up at some point and say, 'We are not gonna pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress.' That war's been fought. That was over a century ago. That debt was paid for in blood, and it was paid for in the blood of a lot of Yankees, especially. And there's no reparations for the blood that paid for the sin of slavery.
I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.
The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.
All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
The Greatest Living Yankee is Whitey Ford, who came out of Aviation High School, which was then in Manhattan, and helped pitch the Yankees to victory in the 1950 World Series when he was 21.
So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.
I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.
I'm very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.
OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him.
I remember the first time I played the triple-A Yankees when I was 20 years old, and Darryl Strawberry was on that team. It was the first time I actually got goose bumps playing against another team.
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.
I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed.
True Yankees are born, not made.
I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
It's a natural push and pull that exists in any sports organization. When you are in a big market and then you win, and you're up against the Yankees, and ratings are what they are and attendance is what it is, no one wants to go backwards; as a business, you don't want to go backwards.
The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.
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.
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.
The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.
I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.
Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.
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.
For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I wrote 'Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man.' It's more the story of his great courage than of his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges, and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig.
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.
When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan.
At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.
We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.
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?
The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.
The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.
Dad was a pure entrepreneur. The dinner conversations weren't like, 'Did the Yankees win today?'
I am a real New Yorker... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.
Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.
