Quotes about Yankee Stadium

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QUOTES ABOUT YANKEE STADIUM

It’s the sum of the parts when you talk about Yankee Stadium that make it so special.
John Sterling

“To be a Yankee is a thought in everyone’s head . . .Just walking into Yankee Stadium, chills run through you.
Jim “Catfish” Hunter

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

“When I first came to Yankee Stadium, I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.”
Mickey Mantle

“I thought it (Yankee Stadium) would be in black and white.”
Greg Maddux,

“That Babe was some architect.”
“Nothing in our league compares to Yankee Stadium.”
Chipper Jones

“When I came up to the Yanks from Newark at the end of the 1946 season, I took one look at the staium and thought, ‘Geez, whatta big place!’”
Yogi Berra

“Thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee. . . .I suppoose we get more sentimental as we get older. That day they had for me, more than any at Yankee Stadium, gave me an awful lot of satisfaction-a feeling that I’d done a pretty good job with the only talent I had.”
Joe DiMaggio

“People from out of town say ther are three things they want to see - the Statue of Liberty, Radio City, and Yankee Stadium. I guess you could say the stadium is hallowed ground.”
Bill Waite

“Yankee Stadium is something else, a law unto itself. It has earned the right to look any way it pleases and I would change a seat of it. . . .It is particularly dreamworthy because not so long ago the World Series used to turn up there as regularly as Wimbledon. I once sneaked out to center field myself as a youth to see how things looked from Mickey Mantle’s point of view and felt the same tingle some people get from Civil War battlefields.”
Wilfred Sheed

“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.”
Roger Maris

“The crack of a bat sounded amplified in cavernous Yankee Stadium, sprinkled lightly with fans on a cool September evening.”
William E. Geist quotes

“Some ball yard!”
Babe Ruth

“There was a great, dark mystery about it when I first came here from Oklahoma. I still get goose pimples just walking inside it. Now I think this is about the prettiest ball park I ever saw.”
Mickey Mantle

“I grew up loving Southern League Baseball. When I was four my daddy took me to the old Rickwood Field in Birmingham. Then, coming to Yankee Stadium in 1937 for the first time-where the greats like the Babe, Lou and DiMag played-was just beyond my dreams. Suddenly here I was, a guy supposed to practice law, broadcasting Yankee home games on radio from this mecca of baseball. This was the place, the number-one place in baseball. The stadium was like the Empire State Building or the Grand Canyon of baseball, and every time I stepped inside of it I had to pinch myself!”
Mel Allen