Lefty Gomez Quotes

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.

I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

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.

So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.

I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.

I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.

You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.

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

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.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

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

I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.

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.

When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan.

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

I love baseball. As a teenager, I was a contrarian and picked the underdog instead of just rooting for the Yankees. It's a hard team to root for, but there's something that always keeps me hopeful.

To put on the pinstripe - it's extraordinary. Just being able to play one game with the Yankees is quite an honor.

The New York Yankees' organization - they train us well from the get-go. They tell us how to handle everything.

The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.

Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.

We are the New York Yankees

The number one thing on any team that will keep your players from being selfish is respect for the other players.