Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.

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?

Stupid dire warnings of imminent doom.They always put me in a bad mood.

I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple.

I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further their own gains at the expense of others.

I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.