Hikaru Nakamura Quotes

I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.

The Yankees are my team.

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

A lot of people love to watch the Yankees.

I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.

I've been a Yankees fan since I was six.

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.

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.

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

I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

I've been very fortunate to play for four great organizations, but New York really takes the cake. Wearing the pinstripes is something that's very special to me, and it's the greatest organization in sports history.

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 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.

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

We are the New York Yankees

Sure, it's nice to win. But there's only one thing that's important to me and that's the money we're going to get, win or lose. . . . I don't love baseball, I like it. And to me, baseball means money, and that's all I care about.

I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

After 12 years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold regardless of my wishes.

No! I won't rule out center field for the Yankees, either.

I loved all sports, and New York's a pretty good sports town, and the Giants - I don't know why we chose the Giants over the Jets, but we chose the Giants.

I'm very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.

Ever since I got drafted by the Yankees, I've been working on my swing.