I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

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.

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.

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

I am not a juicy painter.

I feel so strongly that I use a different word in going around that our forces are depleted - they're depleted.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Andrea raised her eyebrows. "Look at you, all high-speed." "Yeah, you'd think I was a detective or something." Andrea held her hand out. "You'll jinx it.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space.

You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself.