"For the benefit of you younger fellows, we have a lot of rules on this club. Midnight curfew, stay out of the bar at the hotel where we're staying, wear a shirt and sweater to breakfast and a coat and tie to dinner. Think you can remember all that?" Source: The Sporting News (April 1, 1967)

"I don't know whether I'm the first, second, third or twentieth choice for this job, but I'll say one thing—if it was offered to anyone else, they were crazy not to accept. It makes me feel good." Source: Sports Illustrated (09/11/1964)

"If I'm out somewhere and a player comes in, I don't want him to turn around and walk out just because I'm there. I expect him to say hello, have a drink—and then get out." Source: Sports Illustrated (09/11/1964)

"It's no fun playing if you don't make somebody else unhappy. I do everything hard." Source: New York Times (02/10/2007)

"I've got a job to do, and you've got a job to do. I'm paid to manage, and you're paid to play." Source: Sports Illustrated (09/11/1964)

"Just remember, if you ream me, I got the last ream." Source: Sports Illustrated (09/11/1964)

"One morning this sergeant came up to me and said, 'Why don't you volunteer for the Raider battalion?' I said okay. But the first thing they told me was, 'You've got to swim a mile with a full pack on your back.' I said, 'Hell, I can't even swim,' and they turned me down. I told the sergeant what happened. He said, 'You gutless s.o.b., go back down there.' So I told them I knew how to swim. They took me." Source: Sports Illustrated (09/11/1964)

"When you're walking to the bank with that World Series check every November, you don't want to leave. There were no Yankees saying, 'play me or trade me.'" Source: The McFarland Baseball Quotations Dictionary (David H. Nathan, 2000)

"Around the Yankees, .180 hitters usually catch the first milk train back to the farm. Not Bauer; he was around for eleven years, nine pennants and seven world championships. He was no DiMaggio, no Ruth, no Gehrig, no Mantle. He never hit more than 26 homers in a single season, never made more than $34,500 a year, never led the league in anything—except hustle. And that made him a Yankee great." - Sports Illustrated (September 11, 1964)

"Bauer taught me how to dress, how to talk—and how to drink." - Mickey Mantle

"Hank Bauer is an emblem of a generation that helped shape the landscape of our country. He was a natural leader and a teammate in every sense of the word, and his contributions went well beyond the baseball field. His service to the Yankees, his country, and his family shows why I have been so privileged to call him a friend." - George Steinbrenner

"Hank couldn't quite catch up to the ball (hit by Harvey Kuenn in a game at Yankee Stadium). But somehow, God only knows how, he got close enough to tip it with his bare hand —and flip it right into Mickey Mantle's glove. Hank crashed into the Scoreboard, bounced off and trotted back to right-field." - Pitcher Bob Turley

"He played on some of the greatest teams that ever played and brought the Orioles their first World Series title. That’s saying something. He was a players' manager. He didn't overcomplicate things. He was my first manager in the major leagues. He gave me my first opportunity (in 1965) when he could have kept other people. I was lucky; he was a Jim Palmer fan. You can’t get in the Hall of Fame without your first chance." - Jim Palmer (MSNBC.com, AP Wire, 02/09/2007)

"He was a tough dude. He was a leader in his way. He helped a lot of people get used to that New York environment. He was a tough person. Thank God he wasn't mean. When he walked onto that field, business started." - Don Larsen (Who pitched for Bauer from 1955-59)

"His fact looks like a closed fist." - Pulitzer Prize Columnist Jim Murray (Undated LA Times Column)

"I am truly heartbroken (to hear of his passing). Hank was a wonderful teammate and friend for so long. Nobody was more dedicated and proud to be a Yankee. He gave you everything he had." - Yogi Berra

"I'll never forget the first game I pitched for the Yankees. I came flying into the locker room at 1 p.m. I had overslept. Nobody said anything, but Bauer gave me that look of his. I dressed and ran. As it turned out, I won the game. Afterward, Bauer came over. 'Whitey,' he said, 'if you'd lost that game, you'd been dead.'" - Whitey Ford

"One day, Mickey Mantle, after a night on the town, showed up for a game at less than his best. He laid his bloodshot eyes on a teammate, who growled, 'Kid, don't be messing around with my money.' The unforgettable gravelly voice belonged to Hank Bauer, an ex-Marine and maybe the Yankees' most reliable clutch performer in one World Series after another during the 1950s. Mantle may not have always heeded the advice, but he never forgot it." - Columnist Dom Amore (Courant.com, 02/10/2007)

"On the plays Hank has pulled that I don't agree with, he has proved to be right 95% of the time." - Brooks Robinson

"That fella Bauer, he had qualities of which there were four. He'd report on time. He was there for practice, and he would fight the whole season—with all that was in his body." - Casey Stengel

"When Hank came down that base path, the whole Earth trembled." - Boston Red Sox Shortstop Johnny Pesky

"When he was on the field, you were his enemy. Off the field he was ... one of the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet. But on the field, it was his job." - Yogi Berra

Quotes From & About Hank Bauer