I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.

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 felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

Racism is a physical experience.

You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

Give a pup a home and a little love and he will give you his heart forever.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

It is not about how much money you make. The question is are you educated enough to KEEP it.

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

Always destroy what is in you.