50 Yankees Quotes About The Legendary Team

By Clifton Sankofa

School Leader, Language Arts Expert & Master Quote Curator

Published August 26, 2023

Baseball fans rejoice and celebrate the game with our Yankees quotes.

The New York Yankees are arguably one of sport’s most successful franchises.

Learn more about this iconic team with our Yankees quotes.

Who are the New York Yankees?

The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team.

They have been a successful franchise for over 100 years and are synonymous with America’s pastime, baseball.

Check out these interesting New York Yankees facts below:

The Yankees originated in Baltimore, Maryland.
8 Yankees have won the American League Batting Title.
The Yankees have won 27 World Series titles and 40 AL Pennants.

I thought the Yankees were from New York?

Actually, when the team first started, they were in Maryland.

The Yankees were originally formed in Baltimore to serve as the competition for the Orioles.

Their local rivalry with the Orioles was short-lived.

After only two years, the team relocated to New York.

Early success for a struggling franchise

In the beginning, the Yankees were like other teams in the league, competing to win against all odds.

Early in their legacy, the Yankees were okay, but they never won it all.

It was not until the addition of Babe Ruth that the Yankees began to turn the tides.

They won their first World Series in 1923 with a lineup that featured legends such as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

The famous “Murderer’s Row” lineup would propel the team to success as they dominated the American League.

A New York dynasty is born

By the time Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio took the Yankees on a World Series run that lasted from 1936 to 1939, they had already won three World Series.

A decade later, the Yankees set a record by winning five consecutive championships from 1949-1953.

By the sixties, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Whitey Ford would set more records and win more titles.

Modern Yankees continue to dominate

I grew up with Yankees from the 1990s and 2000s.

Reggie Jackson was a hero in my home.

I remember how my entire house celebrated with Ricky Henderson got traded to the Yanks.

We modeled how we threw the ball by watching Don Mattingly.

Everyone practiced swinging like Derek Jeter.

Today the Baby Bombers continue the Yankee’s legacy.

To learn more, check out our Yankee quotes below.

Short Yankees Quotes about the legendary franchise

Check out these shorts and sweet Yankee quotes.

1. “Have faith in the Yankees, my son.” — Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

2. “It’s great to be young and a Yankee.” — Waite Hoyt

3. “Wall Street bankers supposedly back the Yankees.” — Gay Talese, There Are Fans, And Yankee Fans

4. “Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.” — Joe E. Lewis

5. “I imagine rooting for the Yankees is like owning a Yacht.” — Jimmy Cannon

6. “I’d like to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee.” — Joe DiMaggio

7. “Only over my dead body will Larry MacPhail buy the Yankees.” — Ed Barrow

8. “Here at NBC, there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.” — Chet Huntley

9. “I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no-hit game.” — Bob Feller

10. “The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees.” — Waite Hoyt

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11. “And of course, the answer was the Yankees.” — Billy Martin

12. “The myth is that you put a Yankee uniform on a player, and he becomes great.” — Birdie Tebbetts

13. “The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?” — Jimmy Breslin, Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?

14. “In a tough age which called for tough men in baseball, the Yankees were the toughest.” — David Voigt, American Baseball

15. “Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.” — Mike Royko

16. “All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants, or Yankees. They just can’t help it.” — Dizzy Dean

17. “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

18. “A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn’t just an athletic contest. It’s a picnic, a kind of town meeting.” — Michael Burke

19. “The perfect afternoon at Yankee Stadium is when the Yankees score eight runs in the first inning and then slowly pull away.” — Peter Golenbock, Dynasty: The New York Yankees

20. “The worst boner was the sale of the New York Yankees to the Columbia Broadcasting System and the clumsy manner in which it was consummated.” — Arthur C. Allyn

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21. “Brooks Brothers and United States Steel are believed to be solidly in the Yankees’ corner.” — Gay Talese, There Are Fans, And Yankee Fans

22. “I’m going to buy the Yankees. I don’t know what I’m going to pay for them, but I’m going to buy them.” — Dan Topping

23. “Sympathy is something that shouldn’t be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently, it angers them.” — Bob Feller

24. “What does George Steinbrenner know about Yankee pride? When did he ever play for the Yankees?” — Billy Martin

25. “You take a team with twenty-five assholes, and I’ll show you a pennant. I’ll show you the New York Yankees.” — Bill Spaceman Lee

26. “You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.” — Whitey Ford

27. “The majority of American males put themselves to sleep by striking out the batting order of the New York Yankees.” — James Thurber

28. “The efficiently triumphant Yankee machine is a great institution, but, as they say, who can fall in love with U.S. Steel?” — Gay Talese, There Are Fans, And Yankee Fans

29. “When I first signed with the Yankees, the regulars wouldn’t talk to you until you were with the team three or four years.” — Lefty Gomez

30. “When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and join a circus. With the Yankees, I’ve accomplished both.” — Graig Nettles

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31. “It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!” — Joe DiMaggio

32. “My office is at Yankee Stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.” — Derek Jeter

33. “The history of the Yankees is virtually the history of baseball.” — Dave Anderson

34. “My greatest thrill is putting the Yankee uniform on every day.” — Joe DiMaggio

35. “The secret of success as a pitcher lies in getting a job with the Yankees.” — Waite Hoyt

36. “The reason the Yankees never lay an egg is because they don’t operate on chicken feed.” — Dan Parker

37. “My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can’t take that away from me.”— Derek Jeter

38. “One girl said, Dodgers. The other girl said, Giants. That made me madder than hell. I kept saying, Yankees, you dummies.” — Billy Martin

39. “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

40. “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.” — Bob Rubin

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Let’s close our list with these Yankee quotes.

41. “It’s great to be young and a Yankee!” — Waite Hoyt

42. “Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.” — Jimmy Cannon

43. “The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.” — Casey Stengel

44. “A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees.” — Paul Blair

45. “The Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined.” — Paul Blair

46. “The reason I’m a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out-hustled everybody else.” — Reggie Jackson

47. “My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist, or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.” — Joe Lieberman

48. “If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of the New York Yankees, you are capable of remembering the differences between a gerund and a participle.” — Stephen King

49. “I know what kind of pitcher Whitey was, and I know what kind of person Whitey is. It makes me feel proud to be a Yankee. We’re keeping this in the family.” — Mariano Rivera

50. “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.” — Wade Boggs