Penny Marshall Quotes

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

We are the New York Yankees

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

The thing that means the most to me is being remembered as a Yankee, because that's what I've always wanted to be, was to be a Yankee.

If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

I don't think there's anywhere else better than the Giants in terms of organization and history.

You used to be able to identify Sox fans in Yankee Stadium. They sat, slump-shouldered, with the same panicked expectation nervous motorists have looking in the rearview mirror at the 16-wheeler behind them on Interstate 95 near New Haven.

Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past.

I came to Watford to make history.

A-Rod wants to be like Babe Ruth. And people don't realize this, he's a lot like Babe Ruth. Before the playoffs a couple of years ago, A-Rod went to the hospital and promised a dying kid he'd ground out to second for him.

I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.

It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you.

If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.

Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes.

Baseball will miss Steinbrenner. He did a lot of great things-and some not so great-but it's a sad day for baseball, no doubt about it. He was a winner, and he made the Yankees a winner.

Without a past you can't have a future.

I'd like to be remembered. I'd like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, 'Yeah, he's a good shortstop, but he's not as good as ole Ripken was.'

You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods.