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A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, "Why, oh why, with so many other positions in baseball, did I take up this one?"

William Malcolm "Bill" Dickey
New York Yankees
Catcher
HOF 1954

I feel emptiness, and he probably won't be able to close his eyes for two or three days.

Speaking of Florida Marlins manager Jack McKeon after hugging him at the end of Game 6 of the 2003 World Series in which the wild-card Marlins beat the Yankees for the championship

October 25, 2003
Joseph Paul "Joe" Torre
New York Yankees
Manager
HOF 2014

I had a happy life. I was once a Yankee batboy.

After being abducted along with a friend in a Nyack, NY carjacking at age 18 in which both Nappi and the friend were shot (Nappi survived by playing dead, saying he was prepared for death)

Scott Nappi
New York Yankees
Batboy
USA Today

It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.

Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra
New York Yankees
Catcher - OF
HOF 1972

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel
New York Yankees
Manager
HOF 1966

Me too!

Returning to the Yankees' hotel suitably late in the evening and being confronted by manager Casey Stengel who addressed him with, "Drunk again"

Maurice Joseph "Mickey" McDermott
New York Yankees
Pitcher
Contributed by: Rich Bohn

Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.

A telegram to teammate Waite Hoyt after the two had been out drinking and Hoyt subsequently landing in the hospital, the newspapers reporting that he'd had "a case of amnesia"

George Herman "Babe" Ruth
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1936

The game was two hours, with the commercials. I wish they did that now.

After he and Don Larson watched a tape of Larson's perfect 1956 World Series game telecast

02.23.2007
Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra
New York Yankees
Catcher - OF
HOF 1972

A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"

Vernon Louis "Lefty" Gomez
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1972

I guess heaven needed a shortstop.

On the passing of Hall Of Fame shortstop Phil Rizzuto

August 14, 2007
George Michael Steinbrenner III
New York Yankees
Owner

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