The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.
We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.
I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.
We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.
He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.
Any ballplayers that played for me on either the Cardinals or the Yankees could come to me if he were in need and I would give him a helping hand. I made only two exceptions, Carl Mays and Joe Bush. If they were in a gutter, I'd kick them.
I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.
Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all!. . . The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us. "
I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.
Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.
The Babe is one fellow, and I'm another and I could never be exactly like him. I don't try, I just go on as I am in my own right.
If you saw that Yankee pitching too often, there would be a lot of guys doing different jobs.
All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
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.
I didn't really say everything I said.
I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.
So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
I'm pretty excited, this is a big, big one.
The guy stroked his goatee. "What do you call twenty guys watching the world series?" "The New York Yankees," Butch replied.