I don't know. I've never been on second before.
There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.
I want to own a team one day. You know, that's my next goal.
I don't have hate in my heart. I don't hate any person, place or thing. . . but I hate the Yankees.
My first and foremost goal when I joined the Yankees was to win the world championship. Certainly, it's been a long road and very difficult journey. But I'm just happy that after all these years we were able to win and reach the goal that I had come here for.
The great thing about being a Yankee is that youre always a Yankee.
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.
When I was 2, I used to put pictures of the Manhattan skyline in a little scrapbook. And I used to wear American 'stars and stripe' vests and Daytona Beach stuff and they used to call me 'The Little Yankee. ' Thank you to my producers for having faith in a little nobody from Lancashire.
Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win.
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 the other was to get a Yankees hat.
Our fans don't want to see us win the Wild Card. They want to see us win the division.
The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition.
Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion. . . . A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.
We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.
Every time I see him, he's not there.
You're never going to be a Yankee for a day, or you're never going to be a Laker, but with Pro-Ams, they allow you to feel like you're a professional golfer and play under their conditions.
I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
When I played, Old-Timers Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one of the great Yankees. . . It was an out-of-body experience.