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

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

Pair up in threes.

We need a hit, so here I go.

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.

Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

All pitchers are born pitchers.

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

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

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.

Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.

The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

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

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

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

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

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

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

My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me.

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

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

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

Sometimes when we are generous in small barely detectable ways it can change someone elses life forever.

I'm just really happy, because I think we're a great band, and I really like great bands.

I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.

Dont be surprised if you grieve more for a friend than you did for a recently deceased relative. The old saying You pick your friends relatives are thrust upon you holds true here. Friends are special people in our eyes because we hold them to be. Friends fill time in our lives that will be vacant when they die.

I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.

My dad's cool. He is socially liberal.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.