If you don't have a hernia yet then you're not pulling your own weight!

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?

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence was that causes replication in a cardio myopathic virus. That was my goal.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Early morning does not mince words.

If I die today, it'd be a holiday

Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.

Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood