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

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.

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?

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.

After all, the fear is the thing which keep us alive, why do you want to get rid of it??

Do not be afraid to walk the path that you must go just because you cannot see the end. The path becomes clearer as you continue to go on.

Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt – but he won't like God.

When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.

God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn't, then he is not God and we need not worry.

One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.

We must know Jesus before we can imitate Him.

In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

If you make people think they're thinking they'll like you, but if you make people actually think, then watch out, you're not going to be popular.

If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; but if you make but a little of Christ, Christ will make but a little of you.