Quotes About Competition

When I was with the Yankees in 1978, we were playing Baltimore at Yankee Stadium, and the score was 3 - 3 going into the bottom of the ninth inning. I led off against Tippy Martinez - a little left-hander who always gave me trouble - and the count went to three-and-oh.

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.

I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.

Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.

A lot of people love to watch the Yankees.

We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose.

I grew up an Indians fan my entire life. I was never really 'against' the Yankees, but I knew what they were capable of.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

The home run took a while to sink in because all I could think of was, 'We beat the Yankees! We beat the Yankees.'

Look, do I like the Mets and the Yankees? Absolutely.

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 remember the first time I played the triple-A Yankees when I was 20 years old, and Darryl Strawberry was on that team. It was the first time I actually got goose bumps playing against another team.

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.

Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they'd be in any other city.

Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.

I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.

I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.

I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed.

The Yankees can buy all the stars they want, but that doesn't guarantee they are going to win.

It's a natural push and pull that exists in any sports organization. When you are in a big market and then you win, and you're up against the Yankees, and ratings are what they are and attendance is what it is, no one wants to go backwards; as a business, you don't want to go backwards.

I always loved playing in New York, where the Yankees fans expect a winning team every year.

My relatives have always taken their baseball seriously, and proudly rooted for the Yankees when they beat the boys from Brooklyn in six remarkable World Series matchups in the 1940s and the 1950s.

I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.