“I may not have been the greatest Yankee to put on the uniform, but I was the proudest.”
At ceremony retiring his number 1 jersey in 1986. It is also his epitaph, carved into his headstone at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.
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Billy Martin: Frases em inglês
“To keep the five guys who hate you away from the other five guys who are undecided.”
On the secrets of managing; as quoted in "Once Over Lightly" by Van Thomas, in The Longview News-Journal (March 5, 1974), p. 1-B
“I didn't throw the first punch. I threw the second four.”
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