I haven't always made the right decisions.

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?

Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity.

Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.

It doesn't really matter what time it is if you haven't determined what to do with your time.

Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.

What does he stand for?

We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.

You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it's read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.