Second place is really the first loser.

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.

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?

My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.

It's the whole not the detail that matters.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

I love a great pair of jeans and a nice blouse.

Success is more about doing the things you know you should do than discovering the secrets you don't yet know.

Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.

People develop their health habits when they're kids, and that carries through their whole life.

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.