To put on the pinstripe - it's extraordinary. Just being able to play one game with the Yankees is quite an honor.
Aaron Judge
Ever since I got drafted by the Yankees, I've been working on my swing.
The New York Yankees' organization - they train us well from the get-go. They tell us how to handle everything.
A lot of people love to watch the Yankees.
I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
Action Bronson
Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.
Al Lopez
I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.
Al Michaels
You watch all those moments that Jeter had for the Yankees. You can tell by the fans' reaction how much he meant to them and how much he meant to the city, how much he meant to the game of baseball.
Alex Bregman
I watched 'Iron Chef ' for years, and I thought, 'That's playing for the New York Yankees.' I made that my version of being Derek Jeter, and I worked really, really hard to win that.
Alex Guarnaschelli
I'm very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.
Alex Rodriguez
To stay sane, I lived in my head, where I could travel and imagine. In my mind, I played a championship game with the Knicks. I won Wimbledon five times. If the Yankees needed a home run, I came to bat.
Anthony Ray Hinton
I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.
Antonio Sabato, Jr.
I never went through a period were I wanted to be a doctor, a cop or even a rock star. All I wanted to do was play short stop for the Yankees from the time I was about 5. Then I turned 15 and realized how silly that was and just gave up on it.
Artie Lange
I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.
Bert Campaneris
So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.
Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.
I grew up an Indians fan my entire life. I was never really 'against' the Yankees, but I knew what they were capable of.
Bill Mazeroski
The home run took a while to sink in because all I could think of was, 'We beat the Yankees! We beat the Yankees.'
The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.
Bill Simmons
We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose.
Billy Beane
I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.
I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
I've been a Yankees fan since I was six.
I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.
It's not good or bad, but closers have changed things. I don't think you are going to win a World Series without one. Where would the Yankees be without Mariano Rivera?
I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back east and catch Yankees games. His side of the family are big Yankees fans. But, the real connection came in '97 when I moved to New York and became friends with the team.
The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
The Yankees can buy all the stars they want, but that doesn't guarantee they are going to win.
I was in New York, I went to a Yankees game and I called and said, 'Can I get tickets to the Knicks game?' They said, 'We can't get you tickets no more to the Knicks game.'... They had tickets, but they said they didn't have no tickets for me.
Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.
I would have to say that because I've lived in so many cities, by no means do I feel it's fair to call myself a 'fan' of any particular teams. I've lived in New York for a long time, and I did this movie about the Yankees called '*61.' I found out a lot about the Yankees during that time, so I love the Yankees, I've watched the Yankees.
I play rec softball sort of religiously. I'm a huge baseball fan. When I lived in New York City, I'd go to a Yankees game every week.
People grow up loving the Yankees and will tell you, and so many people despise the Yankees, and they come from all over the United States.
OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him.
The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.
For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I wrote 'Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man.' It's more the story of his great courage than of his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges, and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig.
Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate.
I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.
The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.
The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.
All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.
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.
My favorite event each year is the Yankees-Red Sox series. Love seeing passions run hot among the fans, especially when both teams are in the running for the playoffs.
Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.
I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is your life and everything else is secondary.
In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can't. With other teams, the wives always have functions to bring them together. Not here. You don't know what half the wives look like.
When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan.
