“There are so many leaders on this team - so many quality ballplayers - we said we owed it to each other. We deserved to do a better job, especially in front of these fans.”
Chris McKay
“To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.”
Mickey Mantle
“The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.”
Lou Gehrig
“All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.”
Babe Ruth
“Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.”
Leo Durocher
“There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.”
Honus Wagner
“A pitcher is not a ballplayer.”
Christy Mathewson
