He's the leader on this team, I know when Baltimore let us have him, they thought they were giving us a problem. I'll take problems like that anytime.

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.

Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

Winning means everything...You show me a good loser and I'll show a loser.

I will never have a heart attack. I give them.

Second place is really the first loser.

But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.

I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses.

This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?

Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

My dad thought I'd end up in the poorhouse or in doughnut shops with a bag full of reviews.

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old - maybe 35, who knows?

I dont really ever compare myself to other people, I dont even measure myself in terms of anyone but myself.

Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.

I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because you have to win them over.

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.