The best Quotes about the New York Yankees

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.

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.

I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees.

There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo and get a Yankees hat.

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.

Do you know how bad that coffee has to be to to be considered a health risk in New York? This is the same city where pizza gets delivered by a rat!

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.

Everybody in the league knew I had trouble with the inside pitch. I got away with it only because the great majority of pitchers were afraid of making a mistake in that spot. The threat of power is one of the best weapons you have in the batter's box.

When people push back on you and don't think you can do it, and you struggle a little bit and wonder if they're right, it drives you to be successful and to be a great player.

The future ain’t what it used to be.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

You don't think about the cold weather. I'm just going to go out and play ball, do the best I can, and hope the team wins.

He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.

I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

In honor of Cinco de Mayo, mayor Bill de Blasio is filling all New York City potholes with guacamole.

In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.

And if we should die tonight
We should all die together

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.

You win a championship, and you feel 7 feet tall.