My relationship with George Steinbrenner was great. He was the boss, and I accepted that.

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.

The second you think you've arrived, someone passes you. You have to always be in pursuit.

Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.

When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better

Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.

Watching other teams in the World Series is like watching somebody else eat a Hot Fudge Sundae.

I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.

If you do the best you can, you never have to look back.

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

Many people will try to Sell you a Dream, its Your place to let them know you Already have one!

This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.

He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.