Yankee Stadium is a natural venue for another lesson: You won't succeed all the time. Even Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio failed most of time when they stepped to the plate. Finding the right path in life, more often than not, involves some missteps.
I've always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium - I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd.
I've never been an actor on Broadway, but it feels like you're on a stage when you play at Yankee Stadium. And that's the feeling I've always had.
Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.
Yankee Stadium is a mistake: Not mine - the Giants'.
When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.
Madison Square Garden to any New York kid is the center of the universe. Even going there as a fan is like stepping up to the plate at Yankee Stadium. You know you're in the grand cathedral.
When you go hard your nays become yays. Yankee stadium with Jays and Kanyes.
Jeter was no choir boy, Jeter has lived a life. But it's always stayed separate from what happened when he showed up at Yankee Stadium. And that's really to his credit.
The Greatest Living Yankee is Whitey Ford, who came out of Aviation High School, which was then in Manhattan, and helped pitch the Yankees to victory in the 1950 World Series when he was 21.
I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium.
When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.
I always loved playing in New York, where the Yankees fans expect a winning team every year.
Whether or not anybody had invented the category in his lifetime, Babe Ruth was surely the Greatest Living Yankee almost immediately upon lofting home runs at the Polo Grounds, allowing the Yankees to build their own palace across the Harlem River.
I've been a Yankees fan since I was six.
To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true.
After they remodeled Yankee Stadium I didn't feel that the ghosts were there anymore. It just wasn't the same.
The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.
I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.
My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.
Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.
I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
We are the New York Yankees
