I hate to lose. Hate, hate, hate to lose.

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?

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

I've finally decided to write about profit for a changeBut before I really started I already started to feel lameBaby what's it to a beast who manely to money remains untamed

How do we still believe that human nature is not evil when 60 years old men rape 3 years innocent girls?

Making out with Marcus had always felt like a race to the finish line, but with Diego I felt like I'd already won.

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.

When you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe! That's when you find a way!

Docility is the observable half of reason.

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.

Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.